Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.

and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.