And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.

In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:

Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.