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you may obtain. And everyone that strives for
      the  mastery  is  temperate  in  all  things.  Now
      they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we
      for an incorruptible crown. 8 We are confident,
      I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
      body  and  to  be  present  with  the  Lord.  So  we
      labor, that, whether present or absent, we may

      be accepted of him.

      For  we  must  all  appear  before  the  judgment
      seat  of  Christ;  that  everyone  may  receive  the
      things done in his body, according to what he
      has  done,  whether  good  or  bad.  Knowing,
      therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade
      men but we are made manifest unto God, and I

      hope,  made  manifest  in  your  consciences.  9
      Jesus said: You have not chosen me, but I have
      chosen you, and ordained you, that you should
      bring  forth  fruit,  and  that  your  fruit  should
      remain:  that  whatever  you  shall  ask  of  the
      Father in my name, he may give it you.

      These things I command you that you love one

      another.  If  the  world  hates  you,  you  know  it
      hated  me  before  it  hated  you.  If  you  were  of
      the  world,  the  world  would  love  its  own:  but
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