And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit,

And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

for I wrote for this purpose, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

and not as Moses put a vail on his face, that the children of Israel might not see to the end of that which has passed away;

For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

If therefore I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor on account of him that suffered wrong, but that our diligence in your behalf might be manifest before God.

for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.

for the arms of our warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down of strongholds,

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

Have I done wrong to humble myself that you might be exalted, that I preached the gospel of God to you gratuitously?

And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me, that I should not be too much exalted.

For this I besought the Lord thrice that it might leave me.

The signs of an apostle were performed among you with all patience, in miracles, and prodigies, and mighty works.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

we did not yield to them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

So that the law was our schoolmaster to lead to Christ, that we might be justified by faith;

that he might redeem those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

and what the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe, according to the operation of his mighty power,

that he might show in the ages to come the transcendent riches of his grace in goodness to us by Jesus Christ.

the enmity, and abolished by his flesh the law of commandments [consisting] of ordinances, that of the two he might create in himself one new man, making peace,

He that descended is the same also that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill all [places].

that he might sanctify it, purifying it with the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things,

neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

and to you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels

and with every unrighteous deceit among those who are destroyed, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.

desiring to see you, remembering your tears, that I might be filled with joy,

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

whom I should like to retain for myself, that he might serve me for you in the bonds of the gospel,

God bearing them witness with signs and prodigies, and various mighty works and gifts of the holy Spirit, according to his will.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

By faith he observed the passover and the pouring out of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight encampments of foreigners;

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

And I saw a mighty angel proclaim with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seven seals?

and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts down its unseasonable figs when shaken with a mighty wind,

And the kings of the earth and the great men and the chiliarchs and the rich and the mighty and every servant and freeman hid themselves in caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

And after this I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and an iris was about his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire,

and his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them on the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear [a child], that when she had borne he might devour her son.

And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly to the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished a time and times and half a time [three years and a half], from before the serpent.

And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water like a river, that he might carry her away.

And the sixth poured out his bowl on the river, the great Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the East might be prepared.

Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death and sorrow and famine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.

standing at a distance on account of fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon the mighty city, for in one hour your judgment has come.

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more.

And I heard them as the voice of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Halleluia, for the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of chiliarchs and the flesh of mighty [men] and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, both free-men and servants and both small and great.