Now He Who confirmeth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

Now, having come to Troas for the Gospel of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit.

Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know Him thus.

(for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);

Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us.

And now complete the doing also; that, as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be the completion out of what ye have;

And we sent with them our brother, whom we often in many things proved to be diligent, but now much more diligent by reason of his great confidence in you.

Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, am lowly among you; but, being absent, am bold toward you;

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is honorable, though we be rejected.