For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that ye might have a second grace;

Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay

And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness.

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many.

For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling.

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us.

For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on:

And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:

And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveller with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness:

Prepared for this, lest any blame us in this abundance served by us:

And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:

Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.

Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness.

And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises.

For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God;

By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.

Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed.

For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.

The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting.

For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me.

For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice.

This third I come to you. By mouth of two witnesses, and three, shall every word be established.

For we rejoice when we be weak, and ye be able: and this also we pray, your restoration.

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.