But we have in ourselves the sentence of death, that we may not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead;

For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.

But God is true; for our preaching to you was not yes and no:

for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him was yes.

But I call on God as a witness against my soul, that wishing to spare you, I did not go to Corinth;

not that we are lords over your faith, but fellow- workers for your joy: for by faith you stand.

But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you:

for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure not to speak harshly all of you.

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 we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

you are well known to be a letter of Christ, written by us as his ministers, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but. of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

But their minds were blinded: for till this day, in the reading of the old covenant, the same vail remains not taken away, which vail is removed in Christ.

But to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart:

but whenever their heart shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

but we have renounced the secret works of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel is vailed, it is vailed among the lost,

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus sake.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's and not our own.

We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

So, then, death is active in us, but life in you.

But, having the same spirit of faith, according to that winch is written, I believed, and for this reason I have spoken; we also believe, and for this reason we speak,

For this reason we faint not: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day. by day.

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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.

Knowing, then, the fearful judgment of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God. I hope, indeed, that we are also made manifest in your consciences.

We do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you an occasion to boast of us, that you may be able to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for them selves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.

but in all things we commend ourselves as the ministers of God, in much suffering, in afflictions, in distresses, in straits,

you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we were oppressed on every side: without were battles, within were fears.

But God, who comforts those who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you when he told us of your strong affection, your grief, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For although I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that the same letter gave you sorrow, though but for a short time.

Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.

For godly sorrow works repentance not to be regretted, which leads to salvation: but the sorrow of the world works death.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor on account of him who received the wrong; but that our diligent care for you, in the sight of God, might be made manifest to you.

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:

and they did this, not only as we had hoped, but they gave them selves first to the Lord, and then to us, through the will of God;

I do not speak this as a commandment, but on account of the zeal of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

And I give my judgment in this matter; for this is profitable for you, who began not only to do, but to show a willing mind, a year ago.

For I do not intend that there shall be relief to others, and affliction to you; but that, according to equality, your abundance, at the present time, may supply their wants;

But thanks be to God, who put the same earnest care for you in the heart of Titus:

for we provide what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things, but now much more diligent on account of the strong confidence which he has in you.

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:

But remember this, that he who sows sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully, shall also reap bountifully.

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

Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ;

(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)

For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with them selves, have no understanding.

But we will not boast ourselves with respect to regions not measured to us; but according to the measure of the line which God, who measures, has appointed for us to reach even to you.

not boasting ourselves in the labors of others in regions not measured off to us, but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be magnified among you abundantly, according to our line,

But let him that boasts, boast in the Lord:

for he that commends himself is not approved; but he whom the Lord commends.

I wish you could bear with me a little in my folly; but yet bear with me:

But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

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.

But what I am -doing I will also continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they boast, they may be found even as we.

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.

For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.

Behold, I am ready the third time to come to you, and I will not burden you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Be it so, indeed; I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you by deceit.

since you seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but who is mighty in you:

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

But I hope that you will know that we are not without proof.

Yet I pray to God that you may do no evil; not that we may appear as having proof, but that you may do what is good, though we be as without proof.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but we can do something for the truth.