| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have
approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
CO2 7:12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause
that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that
our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
CO2 7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and
exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit
was refreshed by you all.
CO2 7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not
ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our
boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have
forewarned you and testified.
TH1 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
TH1 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who
hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
TH1 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto
you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
TH1 4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all
Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
TH1 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business,
and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
EZR 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD,
and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
EZR 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the
commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
EZR 7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of
the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
EZR 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own
freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
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