And much time passing away, and navigation being already unsafe, because the Fast had already passed by, Paul exhorted them,

who judging me, were counseling to release me, because there was nothing worthy of death in me:

In the first place, indeed, I praise my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God has revealed it to them:

because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

and hope makes not ashamed; because the divine love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who has been given unto us.

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.

but he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession towards God in behalf of the saints.

Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling,

Because of Him, and through him, and unto him, are all things: to him be glory forever: amen.

but if he may eat doubting, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; but every thing which is not of faith is sin.

because in everything you are enriched in him, in all speech and in all knowledge;

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

the work of each will be made manifest: for the day will reveal it, because it is revealed by fire; and the same fire will try the work of each what soil it is.

Because we, being many, are one bread, one body: for we all partake of one bread.

But I praise you because you remember me in all things, and hold fast the commandments, as I delivered them unto you.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory unto her: because the hair has been given to her for a covering.

And proclaiming this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

And we are indeed found false witnesses of God; because we testified according to God that he raised Christ: whom he did not raise, if then the dead rise not.

But I rejoice over the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: because they have supplied your deficiency:

because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction taking place in Asia, because we were burthened exceedingly, above our power, so that we despaired even of living:

as you have also known us in part, because we are your glorying, as you ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

and I had no rest to my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus: but having bidden them adieu, I came away into Macedonia.

because we are a sweet savour of Christ unto God, among those who are saved, and among those who perish;

But their minds were darkened. For until this day the same veil remains in the reading of the old covenant, remains, not lifted; because it is done away in Christ;

Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

now I rejoice, not because you grieved, but because you grieved unto repentance: for you grieved toward God, in order that you may receive damage by us in nothing.

Therefore we have been comforted. But we rejoiced the more exceedingly in our consolation over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all:

because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

I rejoice because in everything I have confidence in you.

because in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

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

because he indeed accepted our exhortation; and being the more enthusiastic, came unto you of his own accord.

Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;

Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

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

Why? because I do not love you with divine love? God knows.

And when Cephas came into Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to blame.

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.

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

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: because it has been written; Cursed is every one having been hung on the wood:

because the one sowing to his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but the one sowing to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

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.

because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another.

buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil.

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

because we are members of his body:

because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.

as it is righteous for me to think in behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, that you are all my fellow-partakers of the grace.

because the blessing is conferred on you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but indeed to suffer for him:

having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.

But I greatly rejoice in the Lord, because indeed you have at length revived to think about me; in whatsoever you indeed were thinking, nevertheless you lacked opportunity.

because also in Thessalonica both once and twice you sent to my need.

because in him all things are created, in the heavens and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All things were created by him, and unto him;

because in him all fulness is pleased to dwell;

because in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

because our gospel came not unto you in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what sort we were among you for your sakes.

being so desirous of you, that we are anxious not only to give the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you are beloved unto us.

And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe.

For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;

Because we wish to come to you, I Paul indeed both once and twice; and Satan hindered me.

because we now live, if you stand in the Lord.

that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

because God did not put us forth unto wrath, but unto the obtainment of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;

when he may come to be glorified among his saints, and among all those who believe, to be wondered at in that day, because our testimony was believed by you.

Let no one deceive you in any way: because unless there may first be an apostasy and the man of lawlessness may be revealed, the son of perdition,

and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;

For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you;

not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.

I give thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, the one having filled me up with dynamite, because he considered me faithful, having put me in the ministry;

being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith:

But let those that have faithful masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather let them serve them, because they are the faithful and beloved who are partaking of the benefaction. Command these things and exhort them.

for because we have brought nothing into the world, we are not able to carry any thing out;

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because frequently he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

For I had much joy and consolation over your divine love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed by you, O brother.

And indeed many have been made priests, because they were prohibited by death from continuing:

but he, because he abides forever, has an unchangeable priesthood:

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they abode not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.

Because this is my covenant which I will establish with the house of Israel after these days, says the Lord; having given my laws in their mind, I will also write them on their heart; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be unto me a people.

And they shall no longer teach each one his neighbor, each one his brother, saying, Know ye the Lord: because all shall know me, from their small even unto the great.

Because I will be merciful unto their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found because God translated him. For before he was translated he had the witness of the Spirit, that he pleased God:

By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and did not fear the commandment of the king.

and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.