Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, and all God's people all over Greece;

not like Moses, who used to wear a veil over his face, to keep the Israelites from gazing at the fading of the splendor from it.

Why, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their minds,

For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life.

I do not indulge in extravagant boasts over work done by others, but I do hope that as your faith increases, my influence may be immensely enlarged through you,

and I may preach the gospel in the lands beyond you without having to boast over work already done in another's field.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.