For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

For we write you nothing other than what you read and understand [there is no double meaning in what we say]. And I hope you will [accurately] understand [divine things] until the end;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him.

So instead, you people should [now] forgive and comfort him, in order that such a person does not become overwhelmed with extreme grief.

To lost people [we become] a smell of death [i.e., we bring condemnation to people who reject our message]; to saved people [we become] a fragrance of life [i.e., we bring salvation to people who accept our message]. And who is adequate to [accomplish] such tasks?

But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed [only] in Christ.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as we received mercy [from God, granting us salvation, opportunities, and blessings], we do not get discouraged nor lose our motivation.

Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Him who knew no sin he made to be'sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Our mouth, is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart, hath become enlarged:

Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?

And will become your Father, and, ye, shall become my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [has become known] throughout all the churches.

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you might not become vain in this respect, but that ye might be ready, as I had said:

In every way you will grow richer and become even more generous, and this will cause others to give thanks to God because of us,

And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our Brothers, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.

To boast indeed does not become me: but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

To keep me from becoming conceited because of the exceptional nature of these revelations, a thorn was given to me and placed in my body. It was Satan's messenger to keep on tormenting me so that I would not become conceited.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

So, let it be [said] that I did not become a burden to you. But being a clever person, [some are saying] that I took you in by trickery. [Note: Paul is saying that even though he took no financial support from the church, they are accusing him of taking financial advantage of them through other people].

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.