If you forgive the man, I forgive him too; anything I had to forgive him has been forgiven in the presence of Christ for your sakes,

Well, when I reached Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had a wide opportunity in the Lord,

if what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with far greater glory.

Yes, and by more than his arrival, by the comfort which you had been to him; for he gave me such a report of how you longed for me, how sorry you were, and how eagerly you took my part, that it added to my delight.

In fact, if I did pain you by that letter, I do not regret it. I did regret it when I discovered that my letter had pained you even for the time being,

I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true.

Thus it is to give and take ??as it is written, He who got much had nothing over, and he who got little had not too little.

Along with them I am also sending our brother: I have had ample proof of his keen interest on many occasions, and it is specially keen on this occasion, as he has absolute confidence in you.

(At Damascus the ethnarch of king Aretas had patrols out in the city of the Damascenes to arrest me,

You had all the miracles that mark an apostle done for you fully and patiently ??miracles, wonders, and deeds of power.