Now I rejoice, not that ye grieved, but that ye grieved to repentance; for ye grieved in a godly manner, so that ye received damage by us in nothing.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation not to be repented of, whereas the sorrow of the world worketh death.

And though I wrote to you, it was not for his sake who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had suffered it, but for the sake of manifesting to you in the sight of God our diligent care over you.

So that if I had boasted any thing of you to him, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our boasting to Titus is found a truth.

And this they did, not as we hoped; but first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:

I speak not by way of command, but that by the diligence of others, I may prove the sincerity of your love.

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun a year ago, not only to do, but also to do it willingly.

For if there be first a ready mind, a man is accepted, according to what he hath, not according to what he hath not.

For I do not mean, that others should be eased, and you burthened; But by an equality,

As it is written, He that had gathered the most, had nothing over; and he that had gathered the least, did not lack.

And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is through all the churches: (And not only so,

For we provide things honest, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

Lest if any of the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) be ashamed of this confident boasting.

Therefore I thought it necessary, to desire the brethren to go before to you, and compleat this your bounty, which had been spoken of before, that it may be ready as a bounty, and not as a matter of covetousness.

Let every man do as he chuseth in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a chearful giver.

For the administration of this service, doth not only supply the necessities of the saints, but likewise aboundeth by the thanksgivings of many to God:

I beseech, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold toward some, who think of us as walking after the flesh:

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the throwing down of strong-holds.)

Yea, if I should boast something more also of the authority which the Lord hath given us, for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

That I may not seem to terrify you by letters.

For we presume not to equal or to compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves: but they among themselves limiting themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

But we will not boastingly extend ourselves beyond our measure; but according to the measure of the providence, which God hath allotted us, a measure to reach even unto you.

For we do not extend ourselves excessively, as not reaching to you; for we are come even to you, in the gospel of Christ:

Not boastingly extending ourselves beyond our measure, in the labours of others; but having hope, now your faith is increased, to be inlarged by you,

yet still within our province, abundantly, So as to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, not to boast in another's province of things made ready to our hand.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

If indeed he that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another Spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

For if I am unskilful in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly manifest to you in all things.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this my boasting shall not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

What I speak, I speak not after the Lord; but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, a day and a night I passed in the deep: In journeyings often,

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

Surely it is not expedient for me to boast: yet I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I knew a man in Christ, above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Yea, I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth) That he was caught up into paradise,

and heard unspeakable things, which it is not possible for man to utter.

Of such an one I will glory; but I will not glory of myself, unless in my infirmities.

For if I should resolve to boast, I should not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me, or heareth from me.

For wherein were ye inferior to the other churches, unless that I myself was not burdensom to you.

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But be it so: I did not burden you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile.

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps?

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.

Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith: prove yourselves. Do ye not know yourselves? That Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprobates.

And I trust, ye shall know, that we are not reprobates.

Now I pray God, that ye may do no evil: not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is good, though we should be as reprobates.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.

Paul an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father,

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Christ who called you by his grace to another gospel, Which is not another;

For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood:

Now the things which I write to you, behold before God, I lie not.

To whom we did not yield by submission, no, not an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.)

But when I saw, that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, If thou being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to judaize?

and not sinners of the Gentiles, Even we (knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ) have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

I do not make void the grace of God; for if righteousness is by the law, then Christ died in vain.

for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Now the law is not of faith; but the man that doeth them, shall live by them.

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

And this I say, the covenant which was before confirmed of God through Christ, the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Now the mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one.

Indeed then, when ye knew not God, ye served them that by nature are not gods.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all.

And ye did not slight or disdain my temptation which was in the flesh, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Now it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only while I am present with you.

Tell me, ye that would be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

(For it is written, Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not; for the desolate hath many more children than she that hath an husband.

But what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Ye did run well: who hath hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

This persuasion cometh not from him that called you.

Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed ye be not consumed one of another.

I say then, walk by the Spirit, and fulfil not the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which ye would.

But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Be not desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.

But let us not be weary of well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

For by grace ye are saved through faith; and this not of yourselves:

it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

Wherefore I intreat you not to faint at my afflictions for you, which is your glory.

But ye have not so learned Christ; Since ye have heard him,

Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints: