we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

I say it not with the view to your condemnation; for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

Lest by any means, if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

But I say this: He that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

because, "His letters, indeed," says one, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little.

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;