For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:

And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

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

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.

Our month stands open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged.

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all.

As has been written, He to whom much, was not in excess; and he to whom little, was not diminished.

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.

(As has been written, He scattered; he gave to the poor: his justice remains forever.

And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven.

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing.