And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit,

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

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

with much beseeching, begging us that they might receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.

For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,

so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters.

For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .

Or did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;