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1818 Feb. 13 Not Paul I Argument
1818 Feb. 13

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch. Paul’s Character

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Boasting

II. Cor. IV. 1. 2. 1. Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received

mercy, we faint not:

2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,

nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth

commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

II. Cor. IV. 5 to 17. 5. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and

ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our

hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus

Christ.

7. But we have this treasure in earth in vessels, that the excellency of the power

may be of God, and not of us.

8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in

despair;

9. Persecuted but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed;

10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also

of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

11. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’s sake, that the

life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

12. So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

13. We, having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed,

& therefore have I spoken; we also believe, & therefore speak; 14.

Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up also by Jesus, and

shall present us with you.

15. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the

thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God.

16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward

man is renewed day by day.

17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more

exceeding and eternal weight of glory:
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