Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And if we are troubled, it is for your consolation and salvation, being worked out in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

And our hope of you is certain, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.

even as you have recognized us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

so that we should not be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

to the one we are the savor of death to death, and to the other we are the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not as many, hawking the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

it having been made plain that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, not having been written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but in fleshly tablets of the heart.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God;

And we are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of the thing being done away.

But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.

Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord;

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have it to answer those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.

For if we are out of our mind, it is to God; or if we are in our senses, it is for you.

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Then we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as God exhorting through us, we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

We are in nothing giving cause of stumbling, in no way, so that the ministry may not be blamed,

You are not restrained in us, but you are restrained in your own affections.

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

I do not speak this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts for us to die together, and to live together.

And his tender feelings are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, as you received him with fear and trembling.

If anyone inquires of Titus, he is my partner and fellow-worker for you, or of our brothers, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.

For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,

Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ's, let him think this again as to himself, that as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

For indeed they say, the letters are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible.

Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters, being absent, such we will be also in deed when we are present.

For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not perceptive.

For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they the seed of Abraham? I also!

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.

for even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For indeed even we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you),

examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?

But I trust that you will know that we are not reprobates.

But I pray to God for you not to do evil, none. And not that we may appear approved, but that you should do the good things, though we are deemed to be reprobates.

For we are glad when we are weak, and you are powerful. But we pray also for this, your perfection.