because we know, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you shall be partakers of the comfort.

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

I had no rest in. my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.

For that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that surpasses.

Because God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For the love of Christ constrains us, because we have this judgment that if one died for all, then have all died:

because the administration of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints, but also abounds in many thanksgivings to God;

Have I committed a sin, in making myself lowly, that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel to you without cost?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.