who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

As

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

We faint not

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

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and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,