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

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together.

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.

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

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.

For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not.

Providing good things beforehand, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

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.

For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ:

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.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare: