For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him.

For whatever promises of God there are, in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.

Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

So that we henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.

Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth;

and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he is of Christ, so also are we.

But he that boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

I begged Titus, and sent the brother with him: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? have we not in the same steps?

for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)