Because I witness, that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they were anxious,

that we should exhort Titus, that as he formerly began it, he may indeed also complete this grace unto you.

But as in every thing you abound, in faith, and in word, and knowledge, and in all zeal, and in divine love from you in us, that you may also abound in this philanthropy.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

but now indeed complete the work; in order that as there was a promptitude of willing, there shall also be a completion out of your ability.

For it is not that there may be relief to others, affliction to you, but that it may be according to equality: at this time your abundance may correspond to their deficiency,

that their abundance may correspond with your deficiency, in order that there may be equality:

as has been written, He that had much did not super-abound; and he that had little did not lack.

For I know your promptitude, of which I am boasting to the Macedonians in your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused many.

But I sent the brethren, in order that our boasting which is in your behalf may not be in vain in this region; in order that, as I was saying, your were ready:

lest perhaps, if the Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we may be put to shame, in this confidence, (that we may say not, you).

Therefore I considered it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they may come to you beforehand, and perfect your preannounced benefaction, that it may be ready, as a benefaction, not as a stingy contribution.

But it is this, he that soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

But God is able to make all grace abound unto you; in order that, always having all sufficiency in every thing, you may abound unto every good work: as has been written,

But he that gives seed to the sower, will also give bread to the eater, and multiply your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

but I pray, that being present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I consider myself bold towards certain ones who regard us as walking about according to the flesh.

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If any has trusted to himself that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this in reference to himself, that as he belongs to Christ, so do we also.

in order that I may not seem as it were to terrify you by my letters.

Let such a one consider this, that, such as we are in word by our letters while absent, such we really are in work being present.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord;

for he that commends himself is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.

I would that you bear with me a little in my folly: yes indeed you do bear with me.

For I consider that I am not inferior to the chief of the apostles.

Did I commit sin humbling myself that you may be exalted, because I preached unto you the gospel of God gratuitously?

The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not cease unto me in the regions of Achaia.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

Again I say, Let no one consider me to be a fool; but if not, receive me as a fool, in order that I may indeed glory some little.

I speak according to disparagement, as that we are weak; but in whatsoever any one is bold, (I speak it in folly,) I am bold also.

Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one being blessed forever, knows that I lie not.

that he was caught up to Paradise, and heard unutterable words, which it is impossible for a man to speak.

And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted.

Three times I called on the Lord concerning this, that it may depart from me.

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me.

For what is that in which you are inferior to other churches, except that I did not burden you? forgive me this wrong.

For a long time you were thinking that I am apologizing to you. We speak before God in Christ; but all things, beloved, are for your edification.

I have told you beforehand, and I am speaking to you in advance, as being present the second time, even now absent, that, if I may come to you again, I will not spare those who have previously sinned, and all the rest;

Prove your own selves, if you are in the faith; examine yourselves; whether do you not know yourselves, that Christ Jesus is in you? unless indeed you are reprobates.

But I hope that you shall know that we are not reprobates.

But we are praying unto God, that he may do you no evil, not in order that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is good, and we may be as disapproved.

Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

who gave Himself for our sins, in order that he might redeem us from the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father:

I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel;

But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel was preached to me, that it is not according to a man;

For you have heard of my life formerly in Judaism, that I was persecuting the church of God exceedingly, and destroying it:

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Which things moreover I write unto you, behold, before God, that I lie not.

But they were only hearing that The one persecuting us at one time is now preaching the faith which he was once desolating;

but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage:

to whom I rendered not submission for an hour; in order that the truth of the gospel may abide with you.

But of those seeming to be something what they were at that time makes no difference to me: God does not receive the face of man: for those seeming to me to be prominent added nothing extra:

but on the contrary, seeing that I am intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, like Peter of the circumcision,

and having known the grace of God which was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, who seem to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

only that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

And the rest of the Jews also reciprocated with him; so that even Barnabas was led away by their dissimulation.

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, If you being a Jew are living like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how do you compel the Gentiles to judaize?

knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through the faith of Christ Jesus, and we have believed into Christ Jesus, in order that we may be justified by faith of Christ, and not by works of law, because by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

For I through law died to law, in, order that I may live unto God.

Then know that those who are of faith, the same are the sons of Abraham.

But the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, That in thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

But that no one is justified by law in the sight of God, is evident: because, The just shall live by faith:

in order that the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus may come to the Gentiles; in order that we may receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

but the scripture has shut up all things unto sin, in order that the promise through faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those who believe.

Therefore the law became our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be justified by faith;

Behold I Paul say unto you, that, if you may be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

You were running well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

I have confidence in reference to you in the Lord, that you shall be none otherwise minded: but the one troubling you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he may be.

I would that those troubling you shall indeed cut themselves off.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.

For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man may sow, that shall he also reap:

But let us not get weary doing that which is good: for in due time we will reap, fainting not.

So many as wish to make a fair show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised; only that they do not suffer persecution on account of the cross of Christ.

For neither do those who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may glory in your flesh.

as he elected us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in his presence.

that we should be unto the praise of his glory, who first exercised hope in Christ:

in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may grant unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the perfect knowledge of himself;

the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

in order that he may show in coming ages the superabounding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

not of works, in order that no one may boast:

for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.

Therefore remember, that when you were Gentiles in the flesh, called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, made in the flesh with hands;

because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world.

having destroyed the law of commandments in ordinances, through his flesh, the enmity, in order that He might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

and that he may reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity on in.

But what is that which ascended, except that which descended into the lower parts of the earth?

But the one having descended and the one having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things, is the same.

in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;

Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need.

Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear.

for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word,