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3 And I have written to you this very [fn] , lest when I come they grieve me, they who ought to refresh me. But I confide in you, that my joy is that of all of you.

And from great affliction and anxiety of heart I wrote those things to you with many tears, not that you might grieve, but (also) that you might know the abundant love I have towards you.

5 But if any one hath caused grief, he hath not grieved me (only), but a part of you all: that the word may not weigh upon [fn] you.

But sufficient for him was this chastisement, which was from many.

10 But to whom you forgive, I also. For I, too, what I have forgiven, have on your account forgiven in the presence [fn] of the Meshiha:

I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titos my brother. But leaving them, I went forth to Makedunia.

But thanks unto Aloha, who in all time maketh us a triumph in the Meshiha, and maketh manifest by us the perfume of his knowledge in every place.

For we are not as the rest who commix the word of Aloha; but as in truth, and as from Aloha, before Aloha in the Meshiha do we speak.

But you yourselves are our epistle, written in our hearts, and known and read of every man.

For you know that you are an epistle of the Meshiha, who hath been ministered by us; written, not with ink but by the Spirit of Aloha the Living; not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.

BUT such confidence we have through the Meshiha toward Aloha.

For we are not sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our power is from Aloha,

who hath made us fit to be ministers of the new covenant, not in the writing, but in the spirit. For the writing killeth, but the Spirit maketh alive.

But if the ministry of death in the writing engraven on stones was with glory, as that the sons of Israel could not look on the face of Musha because of the glory of his face which is abolished,

But they are blinded in their minds unto this day. For when the old covenant is read, that very veil standeth upon them, nor is it apparent (to them) that in the Meshiha it hath been abolished.

But the Lord himself is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord, (there) is liberty.

18 But we all with disclosed [fn] faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, as by the Lord the Spirit.

But we have rejected the secrets of shamefulness; and walk not with craft, nor deal deceitfully (with) the word of Aloha; but by the revelation of the truth make we ourselves manifest to the minds of all men before Aloha.

But if our gospel is hid, to those who perish is it hid:

For we preach not ourselves, but the Meshiha, Jeshu our Lord; but ourselves that we are your servants for the sake of Jeshu.