was this design therefore the effect of levity? or do I design first one thing, and then another, as it best suits my worldly interest?

Therefore, having by the divine favour such a ministry, I exert myself:

Having by the same spirit the same faith as David had when he said, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken:" I also believe, and therefore I speak;

therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord,

therefore, if any man be a christian, he is in a new creation: the old state of things is chang'd to one entirely new.

my having therefore such an entire confidence in you, does agreeably affect me.

I therefore desired Titus, as he had begun, to finish this contribution among you.

I thought it therefore necessary to counsel the brethren to go before, and settle the management of the contribution by this previous notice, that it might have such dispatch, as shows a bountiful, and not a niggardly temper.

therefore it is not strange if his agents are so disguised as to appear like ministers of the gospel; but their end shall be answerable to their actions.

but he said to me, "my favour is sufficient for thee: for my strength is shown to be perfect by thy weakness." with pleasure therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may be seen to dwell in me.

I am therefore glad when I am disarm'd by the strength of your integrity: and this is what I pray for, even your perfection.

these things therefore I write to you being absent, that when I come I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.