We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.
For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.
I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!
knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
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