G5613–ὡς–hōs

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

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For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all the Churches of His people.

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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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And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners in the comfort.

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We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.

ὡς hōs “like”ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”

Do you say that this is self-recommendation once more? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

ὥς hōs “like”

not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.

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We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

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On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were, making entreaty through our lips: we, on Christ's behalf, beseech men to be reconciled to God.

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On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

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through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise. We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;

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as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life;

ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”

as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things.

ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”

And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also.

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For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth.

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And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.

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I have thought it absolutely necessary therefore to request these brethren to visit you before I myself come, and to make sure beforehand that the gift of love which you have already promised may be ready as a gift of love, and may not seem to have been

ὡς hōs “as”ὡς hōs “as”

I beseech you not to compel me when present to make a bold display of the confidence with which I reckon I shall show my `courage' against some who reckon that we are guided by worldly principles.

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Let it not seem as if I wanted to frighten you by my letters.

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For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part, as though it did not extend to you. We pressed on even to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News of the Christ.

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But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ.

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It is therefore no great thing for his servants also to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be in accordance with their actions.

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To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.

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What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

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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.

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