For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?

I still had no rest in my mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took my leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.

but at the present time your abundance should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be equality.

Besides such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

I must go on boasting, though there is nothing to be gained by it; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

And to keep me from being too elated because of the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you what I wish you to be, and you may not find me what you wish me to be; I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.