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2 Corinthians 11:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

By the truth of Christ within me, I am going to make this my pride and boast unchecked throughout the regions of Achaia!

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I am telling the truth in Christ — it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit

God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

You are witnesses, and so is God, to our behaviour among you believers, how pious and upright and blameless it was,

We never resorted to flattery (you know that), nor to any pretext for self-seeking (God is witness to that);

(I am writing you the sheer truth, I swear it before God!)

You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed for ever, He knows I am telling the truth!

No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.

I do not boast beyond my limits in a sphere where other men have done the work; my hope rather is that the growth of your faith will allow me to enlarge the range of my appointed sphere

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:

I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.

Also, salute the church that meets in their house. Salute my beloved Epaenetus, the first in Asia to be reaped for Christ.

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.




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