εἰ καί

Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

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.

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;