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But having the same3spirit of faith, according to what is written, "4I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE," we alsobelieve, therefore we alsospeak,
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knowing that He who 5raised the LordJesus6will raise us also with Jesus and will 7present us with you.
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For allthings are 8for your sakes, so that the grace which is 9spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.
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Therefore we 10do not loseheart, but though* our outerman is decaying, yet our 11innerman is 12being renewedday by day.
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For momentary, 13lightaffliction is producing for us an eternalweight of gloryfarbeyondallcomparison,
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while we 14look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.