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NASB					2 Cor 2:17 For we are not like⁵⁶¹³ many⁴¹⁸³, ¹ ^Apeddling²⁵⁸⁵ the word³⁰⁵⁶ of God²³¹⁶, but ^Bas from sincerity¹⁵⁰⁵, but as from God²³¹⁶, we speak²⁹⁸⁰ in Christ⁵⁵⁴⁷ ^Cin the sight²⁷¹³ of God²³¹⁶.
AMPLIFIED 2015					2 Cor 2:17 For we are not like many, [acting like merchants] peddling God's word [shortchanging and adulterating God's message]; but from pure [uncompromised] motives, as [commissioned and sent] from God, we speak [His message] in Christ in the sight of God.

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Or corrupting

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2 Cor 4:2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Cor 5:8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Cor 12:19 ¶ All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

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1505

eilikrineia; from 1506; clearness, by impl. purity, sincerity:--sincerity(3).

2316

theos; of unc. or.; God, a god:--divinely(1), God(1267), god(6), God's(27), God-fearing(1), godly(2), godly*(1), gods(8), Lord(1).

2585

kapêleuô; from kapêlos (a huckster, peddler); to make a trade of:--peddling(1).

2713

katenanti; adv. from 2596 and 1725; over against, opposite:--ahead(1), front(1), opposite(4), presence(1), sight(2).

2980

laleô; from lalos (talkative); to talk:--made(1), proclaiming(1), said(6), say(5), saying(7), says(2), speak(95), speak forth(1), speaking(54), speaks(25), spoke(44), spoken(38), stating(1), talked(1), talking(5), tell(1), telling(1), things spoken(2), told(7), uttered(1), whispered*(1).

3056

logos; from 3004; a word (as embodying an idea), a statement, a speech:--account(7), account*(1), accounting(2), accounts(2), answer(1), appearance(1), complaint(1), exhortation*(1), have to do(1), instruction(1), length*(1), matter(4), matters(1), message(10), news(3), preaching(1), question(2), reason(2), reasonable(1), remark(1), report(1), said(1), say(1), saying(4), sayings(1), speaker(1), speech(10), statement(18), story(1), talk(1), teaching(2), thing(2), things(1), utterance(2), what he says(1), what*(1), word(179), words(61).

4183

polus; a prim. word; much, many:--all(3), better(1), deep(1), earnestly(3), enough(1), even more(1), few*(1), freely(1), full(1), further(1), further*(3), great(33), greater(4), greater numbers(1), greatly(5), hard(2), harshly(1), heartily(1), high price(1), large(30), large numbers(1), large sums(1), larger(1), late*(2), lengthy(1), long(5), longer(1), loudly(1), majority(3), many(181), many more(1), many people(1), many subjects(1), many things(17), many...things(4), more(25), more numerous(1), most(8), most people's(1), much(50), often(1), plentiful(2), quite(2), several(1), some(1), something greater(2), strict(1), terrible(1), very(1), very large(1), very long(1), very much(1).

5547

Christos; from 5548; the Anointed One, Messiah, Christ:--Christ(516), Christ's(11), Messiah(4).

5613

hôs; adv. from 3739; as, like as, even as, when, since, as long as:--about(20), according(2), affected(1), after(2), appear*(1), appeared(1), effect(1), how(20), however*(1), if(10), just(6), just like(1), like(106), like*(1), namely(1), one(2), same way(1), seeing(1), since(2), size(1), so(3), so*(1), though(15), way(1), when(53), whenever*(1), where(1), while(10).

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