yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead;

And in this confidence it was my purpose to come to you before, that ye might receive a second benefit;

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

For to this end also I wrote, that I might know by putting it to the proof, whether ye are obedient in all things.

that Satan might not gain an advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

and do not as Moses did, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not steadfastly look on the end of that which was to be done away.

Him, who knew not sin, he made sin for us, that we might become Gods righteousness in him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorrowful, but that your sorrow produced repentance. For the sorrow which ye felt had respect to God, that ye might in nothing receive injury from me.

Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds,)

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye did not receive, or another gospel, which ye did not accept, well might ye bear with it.

Did I commit an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God without charge?

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

In respect to this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me;

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you with all endurance, by signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty among you.