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Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we(that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.