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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to brother Timothy and the church members at Corinth who are using e-mail accounts other than AOL.

I will send a separate message to those using AOL accounts, knowing how primitive their e-mail service is at the present time.

And before I forget, Aquila and Prisca send you hearty greetings. I found their e-mail amidst today’s flood of lewd solicitations, virus warnings and get-rich-quick messages, in which there is no real profit.

This is the third e-mail I am sending to you. Did you receive my other two?

I check every day at the Web Cafe near here, but I’ve receive nothing but junk mail so far. If you can’t think of how to respond, just hit ‘Reply’ so I at least know you are getting my stuff.

In my first e-mail message, I wrote to you about faith, hope and love, but received a “Delivery Failure” notice the next day. I sent it again, this time with an urgent prayer to the Lord that it may yet reach you.

I copied my second message about the Divine Treasure within us all to all the congregations throughout Asia Minor, but my service provider, who is clearly not with us in spirit, considered this to be spamming and closed down one of my accounts.

To those who are using Web based e-mail accounts, would you please remember to empty your ‘Inbox’ regularly to avoid bounce-backs. If I keep getting these, I will have to send Stephanas to Corinth with my messages to deliver them to you personally.

In fact, if things don’t improve, I may decide, for all future correspondence, to go back to the slower but more reliable parchments and courier system we used before Peter had his vision about global communication.

Anyway, I want to write to you now on the important subject of

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