because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

And his affection for you is much greater ¹  when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself ¹  is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one ¹  who called you by the grace of Christ ²  and are following ³  a different ⁴  gospel –

However, it is good ¹  to be sought eagerly ²  for a good purpose ³  at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. ¹  For a person ²  will reap what he sows,

For by grace you are saved ¹  through faith, ²  and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ¹ 

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) ¹  but Satan thwarted us.

in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves ¹  in the household of God, because it is ²  the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ¹  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

And no creature is hidden from God, ¹  but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

and then have committed apostasy, ¹  to renew them again to repentance, since ²  they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again ³  and holding him up to contempt.

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle ¹  was standing.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us. ¹ 

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails ¹  in one point has become guilty of all of it. ² 

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ¹  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ²  save him? ³ 

Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, ¹  or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

But ¹  concerning the one who lacks such things ²  – he is blind. That is to say, he is ³  nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.