since, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.

For this reason, we have been comforted by means of your comfort: and we rejoiced exceedingly more indeed, on account of the joy of Titus, for his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:

We make known to you, brethren, God's gracious gift, which has been given in the churches of Macedonia;

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

and being ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience shall have been fully established.

But if I am unpolished in my style of speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.

I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.