And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

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

and now also finish doing it, that even as there is the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,

but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,