Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.