so that we urged Titus, that, as he had already made a beginning, so he would also finish among you this bounty also.

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Would that ye could bear with me in a little folly! and indeed ye do bear with me.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Is then the Law against the promises of God? Far be it! For if a law had been given which was able to give life, righteousness would indeed have been by the Law;

How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

Would that they who unsettle you would quite cut themselves off!

For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him;

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

For I would have you know what a great struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, who have no hope.

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might minister to me in the bonds of the gospel;

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not after this be speaking of another day.

For if, indeed, he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those that offer the gifts according to the Law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then a place would not have been sought for a second.

For in that case would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return;

And what shall I say more? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel, and the prophets;

"For he that would love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile;

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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

Having many things to write to you, I would not write with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

Wherefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words; and not content therewith, he himself doth not receive the brethren, and those that would he forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church.

that they told you that at the last time there would be scoffers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.