and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

and to God are thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

for the all things are because of you, that the grace having been multiplied, because of the thanksgiving of the more, may abound to the glory of God;

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.

for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have something in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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,

in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, 'Be ye reconciled to God;'

ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your own bowels,

and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- 'I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

not to condemn you do I say it, for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within -- fears;

for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

because the letters indeed -- saith one -- are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;

for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that are in Christ,

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

'Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father!'

they are zealous for you -- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

for it hath been written, 'Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many are the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold -- fearlessly to speak the word.

that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth --

for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

As many, therefore, as are perfect -- let us think this, and if in anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ;

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.