For so many promises of God, in Him are yes; therefore indeed through him they are Amen unto the glory to God through us.

but when they may turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

And what harmony has the temple of God with idols? for we are the temple of the living God; as God said; I will live in them, and walk about among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Because I witness, that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they were anxious,

and not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God:

Therefore I considered it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they may come to you beforehand, and perfect your preannounced benefaction, that it may be ready, as a benefaction, not as a stingy contribution.

Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain ones of those who recommend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not wise.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I am also.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.