47:002:011 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
for we are not
ignorant
of his devices.
47:002:012 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach
Christ’s gospel,
and
a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
47:002:013 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found
not Titus my
brother:
but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
Macedonia.
47:002:014 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth
us to triumph in
Christ,
and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by
us
in
every place.
47:002:015 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ,
in them that are
saved,
and in them that perish:
47:002:016 To the one we are the savour of death unto
death; and to the
other
the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient
for
these
things?
47:002:017 For we are not as many, which corrupt the
word of God: but as
of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak
we in
Christ.
47:003:001 Do we begin again to commend ourselves?
or need we, as some
others,
epistles of commendation to you, or letters of
commendation
from you?
47:003:002 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts,
known and read of
all
men:
47:003:003 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared
to be the epistle of
Christ
ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
Spirit
of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in
fleshy
tables of the heart.
47:003:004 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
47:003:005 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves
to think any thing as
of
ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
47:003:006 Who also hath made us able ministers of
the new testament; not
of
the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter
killeth, but
the
spirit giveth life.
47:003:007 But if the ministration of death, written
and engraven in
stones,
was glorious, so that the children of Israel could
not
stedfastly
behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance;
which glory was to be done away:
47:003:008 How shall not the ministration of the spirit
be rather
glorious?
47:003:009 For if the ministration of condemnation
be glory, much more
doth
the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
47:003:010 For even that which was made glorious had
no glory in this
respect,
by reason of the glory that excelleth.
47:003:011 For if that which is done away was glorious,
much more that
which
remaineth is glorious.
47:003:012 Seeing then that we have such hope, we
use great plainness of
speech:


