just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? For you are our glory and joy.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.
So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
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