G1161–δέ–de

I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

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But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

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Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;

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but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

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As to the collection for God's people, what I have directed the Churches of Galatia to do, you must do also.

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And when I am with you, whatever brethren you accredit by letter I will send to carry your kind gift to Jerusalem.

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And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, they shall go as my companions.

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I shall come to you after passing through Macedonia; for my plan will be to pass through Macedonia;

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and I shall make some stay with you perhaps, or even spend the winter with you, in order that you may help me forward, whichever way I travel.

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I shall remain in Ephesus, however, until the time of the Harvest Festival,

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If Timothy pays you a visit, see that he is free from fear in his relations with you; for he is engaged in the Master's work just as I am.

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Therefore let no one slight him, but all of you should help him forward in peace to join me; for I am waiting for him and others of the brethren.

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As for our brother Apollos, I have repeatedly urged him to accompany the brethren who are coming to you: but he is quite resolved not to do so at present. He will come, however, when he has a good opportunity.

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And I beseech you, brethren--you know the household of Stephanas, how they were the earliest Greek converts to Christ, and have devoted themselves to the service of God's people--

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It is a joy to me that Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus have now arrived, because what was wanting so far as you are concerned they have supplied.

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But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings

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For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world,

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For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;

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As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No."

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But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,

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But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth.

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Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--to all of you.

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When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

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Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,

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But to God be the thanks who in Christ ever heads our triumphal procession, and by our hands waves in every place that sweet incense, the knowledge of Him.

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