And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that ye might have had a second benefit, And to pass by you into Macedonia,

and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be brought forward by you in my way toward Judea.

But I determined this with myself not to come to you again in grief.

And I wrote thus to you, that I might not when I come have grief from those for whom I ought to rejoice; being persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean person, saith the Lord, and I will receive you,

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: from without were fightings, from within were fears.

Lest if any of the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) be ashamed of this confident boasting.

For we do not extend ourselves excessively, as not reaching to you; for we are come even to you, in the gospel of Christ:

Surely it is not expedient for me to boast: yet I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to 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.

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare: