G2532–καί–kai

For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?

καὶ kai “again”

And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.

καὶ kai “And”

For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you, but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with love for you.

καὶ kai “and”

So that you may now take the opposite course, and forgive him rather and comfort him, for fear he should perhaps be driven to despair by his excess of grief.

καὶ kai “and”

For in writing to you I have also this object in view--to discover by experience whether you are prepared to be obedient in every respect.

καὶ kai “also”

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,

καὶ kai “and”

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,

καὶ kai “also”

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.

καὶ kai “and”

For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;

καὶ kai “and”

to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?

καὶ kai “And”

Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.

καὶ kai “and”

It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit; for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.

καὶ kai “also”

For, in fact, that which was once resplendent in glory has no glory at all in this respect, that it pales before the glory which surpasses it.

καὶ kai “Even”

who used to throw a veil over his face to hide from the gaze of the children of Israel the passing away of what was but transitory.

καὶ kai “and”

If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled, the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the way to perdition,

καὶ kai “even”

But we have this treasure in a fragile vase of clay, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be seen to belong to God, and not to originate in us.

καὶ kai “and”

always, wherever we go, carrying with us in our bodies the putting to death of Jesus, so that in our bodies it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.

καὶ kai “also”

For we, alive though we are, are continually surrendering ourselves to death for the sake of Jesus, so that in this mortal nature of ours it may also be clearly shown that Jesus lives.

καὶ kai “also”

But possessing the same Spirit of faith as he who wrote, "I believed, and therefore I have spoken," we also believe, and therefore we speak.

καὶ kai “also”καὶ kai “also”

For we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us and you to stand in His own presence.

καὶ kai “also”καὶ kai “and”

Therefore we are not cowards. Nay, even though our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

καὶ kai “even”καὶ kai “and”

For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven--

καὶ kai “And”

if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

καὶ kai “even”

Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life.

καὶ kai “And”

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

καὶ kai “and”