If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

May you have grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?

He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)

The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God's Spirit.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the intimate sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.

We have such confidence through Christ toward God.

I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.

He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully.

Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us.

We do not give up! Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Now God is the Spirit and where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty (freedom).

Let a person like this take this into account: what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.

For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died.

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us.

But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that in whatever matter they boast, they may be found equal with me.

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it (for I see that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season),

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

I was given a painful physical ailment that will keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw. It acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

And no wonder for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light.

We walk by faith, not by sight.

We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the power beyond what is normal may be from God, and not from ourselves.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Prove your own selves. Do you not know this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is with you, unless you are disqualified?

We make known to you brothers the grace of God that has been given to the congregations of Macedonia.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves. But they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves. They are without understanding.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

The weapons we use in our fight are not of the flesh but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

Thanks to God, who always leads us in triumph (triumphal procession) in Christ. He makes known through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

You will be made rich in everything. And you can be generous on every occasion. This will cause thanksgiving to God through us.

For he said: At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation!

For godly sorrow works repentance leading to salvation. This is a repentance that brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.

We do not look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things that are seen are temporal (for a season). But the things that are not seen are eternal.

He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

What is it in which you were inferior to other congregations, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who perish.

For I am zealous over you with a godly fervor (ardor) (zeal)! For I promised you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

I now rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance; for you were made sorry after a godly fashion, that you might not suffer loss by us.

We have this ministry to do, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart.

Our hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you also partake of the comfort.

God is able to make all grace abound toward you. You have plenty of everything you need and should abound in every good work.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort. It works through patience and longsuffering and is the same sufferings that we also suffer.

From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know; or whether out of the body, I do not know; God knows), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

I must brag, although it does not do any good. I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you. I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. The children should not provide for the parents, but the parents for the children.

You also helped with your prayer on our behalf. Many may give thanks for the gift granted to us.

For we are not overstretching ourselves though we did not reach to you. We reached out to you with the good news of Christ.

God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us!

I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little.

by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end:

Let us preach the good news to the parts beyond you. Let us not boast in someone else's territory in concerning things ready for our hand.

But now complete the doing. There was the eager will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

It is not he that commends himself that is approved. It is the one whom Jehovah commends. (Proverbs 29:26)

This service not only takes care of the needs of the holy ones, but also abounds with many expressions of thanksgiving to God.

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.

But he who boasts let him boast in Jehovah! (Jeremiah 9:24)

But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no.

The proof of this ministry is that they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the good news of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men.

This very thing that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it made in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, yes what vindication! You demonstrated yourself to innocent in the matter.

To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea.

But thanks to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

as also you did acknowledge us in part, that we are your reason to be proud, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

I do not say this for the ease of others and for your affliction

For if we are beside ourselves (crazy) (insane) it is to God. If we are of sound mind, it is to you.

The ministry of death was written and engraved on stones. Glory came with it so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses. And this glory was passing away.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.

In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit.

He also sealed us, and gave us the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.

We did not boast beyond our assignment in other men's labors. Having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be made great among you according to our territory for further abundance.

Although I wrote to you, I did not write for the sake of the one who did wrong, nor for the one who suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no?

but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be with glory?

Did I gain you by any of them whom I sent to you?

If in anything I have boasted about him to you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our boasting also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

We are not again commending ourselves to you. But we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us. That way you may have an answer for those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

They pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth.

We always carry in the body the death of Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.

We are persecuted, yet not forsaken. We are struck down, yet not destroyed.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we, preached among you even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him is yes.

Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. We enjoyed our comfort the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his mental disposition.

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.

We do not control your faith. We are fellow workers for your joy: for you stand fast in faith.

I will gladly spend and be spent for you. When I love you more abundantly should I be loved less.

And we have sent together with him the brother, whose praise in the good news has spread through all the congregations,

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory then the ministry of righteousness would exceed in glory.

Just the same, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning.

If that which passes away was with glory, that which remains is even more glorious.

I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. If any are bold, I speak foolishly for I am also bold.

You being wise tolerate the foolish.

Also as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for you're up building.

Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus gain you? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same mental disposition? Did we not walk in the same steps?

Even what was glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the greater glory.

In this we sigh (in silent prayer), longing to be clothed with our habitation that is from heaven.

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

O Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, our (figurative) heart is wide open (enlarged).

I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face.

We send our brother with them, whom we have many times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

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

Their minds were blinded. Until this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It is not revealed to them that Christ voided it.

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment that was inflicted by the many.

Now in return for the same in like kind (I speak as to my children), you also be open (open your hearts wide)!

His affection is even greater for you as he remembers your obedience and how with reverence and trembling you received him.

He that prepared us for this very purpose is God. He gave the Spirit to us as a guarantee (pledge) (security).

While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.

And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the congregations to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness.

Show to them as representatives of the congregations the quality of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.

In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;

Avoid this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty that is ministered by us:

I rejoice that in everything I am encouraged because of you.

We are not like Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look steadily on the end of that which was passing away:

For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth to you of his own accord.

We do not restrict you, but you are restricted by your own affections.

The governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me.

Indeed being clothed we will not be found naked.

Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations.

I urge you to confirm your love toward him.

We know that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

for we think of honorable things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men.

Whoever you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ,

So then death works in us, but life in you.

Out of severe affliction they have an abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounds in the riches of their generosity.

Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you or our brothers, they are the messengers of the congregations, and they are the glory of Christ.

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no person. We wronged and corrupted no one. We took advantage of no person.

I know you are ready and I boast about to the Macedonians. That Achaia has been prepared since last year. Your zeal stirred up many of them.

But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

When one turns to God, the veil is taken away.

When we came to Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side, fighting on the outside and fears on the inside.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.

I thought it necessary therefore to request the brothers to go before me to you, and prepare your generous gift before hand, that the same might be ready as a gift and not extortion.

This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

All things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

To the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excess sorrow.

I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

They were very urgent in their concern for this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the holy ones.

Nevertheless he who comforts the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

We exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

For according to their ability, I bear witness, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing.

As it is written: He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor. His righteousness abides forever.

But I have sent the brothers that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect. Even as I said, you may be prepared:

You look at the things that are before you. If any man trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

We are ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

This is not by his coming only, but also by the comfort he brought from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me so that I rejoiced yet more.

I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

I write for this purpose, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

I should boast a great deal concerning the authority the Lord gave us to build you up, and not to tear you down, I would not be put to shame.

I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Lest by any means, if any from Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to speak of you, should be put to shame in this respect.

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to speak.

Give no occasion for stumbling (offence) in anything that our ministry may not be blamed (discredited).

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? We are the temple of the living God. God said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Leviticus 26:12) (Zechariah 8:8)

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I do not know; God knows),

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the congregation of God at Corinth, with all the holy ones throughout Achaia:

To the one an aroma of death leading to death and to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

We do not preach about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord. We are your servants for Jesus' sake.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

Three times I prayed to God about this and asked him to take it away.

All the promises of God in him are yes. Also in his is the Amen, to the glory of God through us.

We are pressed (afflicted) (troubled) on every side, but not crushed. We are perplexed yet not to despair.

This is now the third time that I am coming to visit you. The testimony of two or three witnesses must uphold an accusation. (Deuteronomy 19:15)

For if I make you sad, who then makes me glad? It is the same one whom I made sad.

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

I had no relief for my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother: but leaving them, I went to Macedonia.

He who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God.

Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).

We know what it means to respect the Lord so we persuade others. God knows us and I hope that you know us in your hearts (consciences).

But having the same spirit (attitude) of faith, according to that which is written, I believe, and therefore I speak. We also believe, and therefore we also speak.

Since we have such a hope we use great boldness of speech.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

But as you have plenty of everything, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love for us, see that you have plenty of this undeserved kindness also.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the good news of God without charge?

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

If someone comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different good news, which you did not accept, you do well to put up with him.

If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities.

We make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to him.

I will brag about this person, but I will not brag about myself unless it is about my weaknesses.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me from doing this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Finally brothers, farewell: Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

If I ever wanted to brag, I would not be a fool. Instead, I would be telling the truth. But I am going to spare you so that no one may think more of me than what he sees or hears about me.

For I do not consider myself inferior to the super apostles.

He comforts us in all our trouble, that we may be able to comfort those who also have trouble, through the comfort with which we are comforted from God.

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.

Though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. We have in every way made this evident to you in all things.

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province that God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forever knows I do not lie.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

It is known that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh that are of the heart.

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God. We are an aroma for those who are saved and those who perish.

Why? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do!

I hope you can put up with me in a little foolishness: but indeed you do put up with me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

All the holy ones salute you.

Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

I do not need to write you about the ministry to the holy ones.

I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)

I robbed other congregations, taking pay from them that I might minister to you.

When I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man. For the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will continue to do the same.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but is mighty in you.

I told you in advance as if I were present the second time. Being absent now I write to those who have sinned and to all others. If I come again I will not spare you.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we may seem disqualified.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power that the Lord gave me to enlightenment and not to destruction.

We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted.

I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.