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

And by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia, to come to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

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

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

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.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

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

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: