G3754G–ὅτι–hoti

For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

ὅτι hoti “that”

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.

ὅτι hoti “that”

For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.

ὅτι hoti “that”

We have therefore a cheerful confidence. We know that while we are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord;

ὅτι hoti “that”

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,

ὅτι hoti “that”

And what compact has the Temple of God with idols? For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said, "I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; and will be their God, and it is they who shall be My people."

ὅτι hoti “that”

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

ὅτι hoti “that”

For if I gave you pain by that letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it then. I see that that letter, even though for a time it gave you pain, had a salutary effect.

ὅτι hoti “that”

Now I rejoice, not in your grief, but because the grief led to repentance; for you sorrowed with a godly sorrow, which prevented you from receiving injury from us in any respect.

ὅτι hoti “that”ὅτι hoti “that”

I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.

ὅτι hoti “that”

how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase their generous liberality.

ὅτι hoti “that”

For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich, in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.

ὅτι hoti “that”

For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.

ὅτι hoti “that”

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

ὅτι hoti “that”

Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we also in act when present.

ὅτι hoti “that”

Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.

ὅτι hoti “that”

I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever reason any one is `courageous' --I speak in mere folly--I also am courageous.

ὅτι hoti “that”

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed throughout the Ages--knows that I am speaking the truth.

ὅτι hoti “that”

God knows--was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable things which no human being is permitted to repeat.

ὅτι hoti “that”

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

ὅτι hoti “that”

You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.

ὅτι hoti “that”

Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you, I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second visit when present, so I do now, though absent) that, when I come again, I shall not spare you;

ὅτι hoti “that”

Test yourselves to discover whether you are true believers: put your own selves under examination. Or do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you, unless you are insincere?

ὅτι hoti “that”

But I trust that you will recognize that we are not insincere.

ὅτι hoti “that”ὅτι hoti “that”

I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News.

ὅτι hoti “that”