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

Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf, that we may become God's righteousness in Him.

Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

And He hath said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for My power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.

But we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation;

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

And such confidence have we through Christ toward God:

And I wrote this very thing, that I might not, when I came, have sorrow from those of whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich.

And He Who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

But I say this: He that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

Let each one do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.

But all things are of God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Wherefore, we faint not; but even if our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word through letters, when absent; such also are we in deed, when present.

For the love of Christ is constraining us; having judged this, that One died for all; consequently, they all died:

casting down reasonings, and every high thing lifting itself up against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having put in us the word of reconciliation.

But what I am doing, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion from those desiring occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we.

because, even if I did make 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.

For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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

Having, therefore, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

and no wonder, for even Satan transforms himself into an angel of light!

(for we walk by faith and not by sight);

On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness may be of God, and not from ourselves;

Try yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not as to yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye be rejected?

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

For we are not bold to judge ourselves among, or to compare ourselves with, some of those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For, though walking in flesh, we are not warring according to the flesh,

but I fear lest, by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ.

because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

(for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God for the casting down of strongholds);

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ;

But thanks be to God, Who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place;

ye being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

(for He saith, "At an acceptable time I heard Thee, and in a day of salvation did I succor Thee;" behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation);

For godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of; but the sorrow of the world works death.

while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

Because, as the sufferings of Christ abound toward us, so through Christ our consolation also abounds.

And I give my judgment in this; for this is profitable for you, who, indeed, began before others, a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

For what is there in which ye were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong!

we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Wherefore, "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate," saith the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you;

And, even if our Gospel has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who perish;

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ;

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us.

Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not;

and our hope in your behalf is steadfast, knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so are ye of the consolation also.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in every thing, may abound to every good work:

But, whether we be in tribulation, it is for your consolation and salvation; or, whether we are consoled, it is for your consolation, which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know Him thus.

For our momentary light tribulation is working out for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not, God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the Third Heaven.

It is needful for me to glory, though, indeed, not profitable; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the mercy bestowed upon us by means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as if not reaching to you; for we came even as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ;

Who delivered us out of so great a death, and will still deliver: on Whom we have set our hope, that He will also still deliver;

I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little.

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

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

so as to proclaim the Gospel in the regions beyond you, not to glory in another's limit in the things made ready to our hand.

And now complete the doing also; that, as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be the completion out of what ye have;

for not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

Because the ministry of this service not only fully supplies the deficiencies of the saints, but abounds also through many thanksgivings to God;

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

yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, Who raiseth the dead;

for, if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he has not.

But he that glories let him glory in the Lord;

But, as God is faithful, our word to you is not "Yea" and "Nay."

through the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

For, behold this very thing??hat ye were made sorry after a godly manner??hat diligence it wrought in you; yea, what defense of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea what earnest desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In everything ye proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

and through you to go into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judaea.

But thanks be to God Who putteth the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus.

as also ye did acknowledge in part, that we are your theme of boasting, as ye also will be ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For it is not that there may be relief to others, but distress to you;

For whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is for you.

But, if the ministration of death, engraven in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look steadily upon the face of Moses on account of the glory of his face, which glory was passing away;

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

And in this confidence I was purposing before to come to you, that ye might have a second favor;

Who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest 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 has been written, "He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack."

not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,

So, although I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnest care on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God.

When, therefore, I was purposing this, did I manifest fickleness or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yea, yea," and the "Nay, nay?"

but, by the rule of equality, your abundance being a supply, at the present time, for their deficiency; that also their abundance may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality:

how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory?

Did I gain advantage over you through any one of those whom I have sent to you?

For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth.

What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

We are not again commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have something suited to those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

they also, with supplication for you, longing after you on account of the exceeding grace of God upon you.

But I invoke God as a witness upon my soul, that, as sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth.

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

pursued, yet not abandoned; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you through us??hrough me and Sylvanus and Timothy??as not "Yea" and "Nay," "Nay," but in Him is "Yea."

For this cause, we have been consoled; but, in our consolation, we rejoice the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

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

Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye have been standing.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

And we sent with him the brother whose praise in the Gospel is in all the assemblies;

For, if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

But be it so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

for, if that which is passing away comes through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

I speak by way of dishonor, as though we were weak; but in whatever anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I also am bold.

for ye gladly bear with the foolish, being yourselves wise.

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

Think ye all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you? Before God in Christ we are speaking; and all, beloved, for your edification.

Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory;

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

Now I, Paul, myself entreat you, through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in your presence, indeed, am lowly among you; but, being absent, am bold toward you;

I entreated Titus, and sent with him the brother. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not walk in the same steps?

For even that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory;

For verily, in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from Heaven;

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians! our heart has been enlarged!

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

For ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes you captive, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face.

And we sent with them our brother, whom we often in many things proved to be diligent, but now much more diligent by reason of his great confidence in you.

from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one;

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

But their minds were unimpressible; for until this day upon the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted; which in Christ is done away.

Sufficient for such a one was the punishment inflicted by the many;

Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged.

And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit.

For, indeed, we who are in the tabernacle groan, being weighed down; not that we wish to be unclothed, but be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

And what concord of Christ is there with Belial? or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

and not that only, but who was also appointed by the assemblies, as our fellow-traveler with this gift which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and our zeal;

Show ye, therefore, toward them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

avoiding this, that no one should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us;

I rejoice, that in everything I have good courage concerning you.

and not as Moses, who put a veil over his face, that the sons of Israel might not look steadily to the end of that which was passing away.

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

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me;

if, indeed, being also clothed, we will not be found naked.

Apart from those things without, that which is a pressure upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

Wherefore, I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

knowing that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

for we provide things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

And to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for what I also have forgiven??f I have forgiven anything??or your sakes have I forgiven it in the person of Christ;

So that death is working in us, but life in you.

that, in much trial of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

Whether any one inquires about Titus, he is my partner, and my fellow-worker in your behalf; or our brethren, they are the messengers of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

because, "His letters, indeed," says one, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

Make room for us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we defrauded no one.

for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past; and your zeal stirred up the majority of them.

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

but I pray that, when present, I may not show courage with the confidence with which I purpose to be bold against some who reckon us as walking according to the flesh.

Now, having come to Troas for the Gospel of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

But, whensoever it shall return to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief; but we were in tribulation on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

Great is my boldness toward you; great is my glorying on your behalf; I am filled with consolation; I overflow with joy in all our tribulation.

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness.

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

I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love.

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, abounding through the many, may make the thanksgiving abound, to the glory of God.

so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

beseeching us with much entreaty as to the grace and the participation in the ministering to the saints;

But God, who consoleth the lowly, consoled us by the coming of Titus;

so that we exhorted Titus that, as he began before, so also he would finish in you this same grace also.

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

I have become foolish; ye compelled me; for I ought to be commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

as it has been written, "He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor; his righteousness abides forever."

But I sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that even as I said, ye may be prepared;

Ye look at things according to appearance. If anyone has trusted to himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, as he is Christ's, so also are we.

and holding ourselves in readiness to avenge every disobedience, when your obedience is made complete.

and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled over you; rehearsing to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more:

I say it not with the view to your condemnation; for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

For, even if I glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority??hich the Lord gave for building you up, and not for tearing you down?? shall not be put to shame;

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;

Lest by any means, if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, which it is not lawful for a man to speak.

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministry be not blamed;

And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

to the one class a savor of death unto death, and to the other a savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

For however many are the promises of God, in Him is the "Yea"; wherefore, also, through Him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

being pressed on every side, yet not cooped up; perplexed, yet not despairing;

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses, and of three, shall every word be established.

For, if I make you sorry, who, indeed, is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

I have had no relief in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but, bidding them adieu, I went forth into Macedonia.

Now He Who confirmeth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but to God we have been made manifest, and I hope that we have been made manifest also in your consciences.

But, having the same spirit of faith, according to what has been written, "I believed, therefore did I speak"; we believe, therefore also we speak;

Having, therefore, such hope, we use great boldness of speech;

that we might not be over-reached by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

But, as ye abound in everything??n faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us??ee that ye abound in this grace also.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our tribulation which befell us in Asia; that we were exceedingly weighed down beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God;

and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to Him Who died for them, and rose again.

For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him.

If I must glory, I will glory in the things that pertain to my weakness.

Wherefore, we also make it our aim??hether being at home or being from home??o be well-pleasing to Him.

On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this glorying shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Wherefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I powerful.

For, if I should desire to glory, I would not be foolish, for I shall be speaking truth; but I forbear, lest some one should think, in regard to me, above what he sees me to be, or hears from me.

For I reckon that I am in no respect behind the most eminent apostles.

Who consoleth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to console those who are in any tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

And, though I be rude in speech, yet am I not rude in knowledge; but in every way having manifested it toward you in all things.

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

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;

being made manifest that ye are Christ's epistle ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!

because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;

Wherefore? because I do not love you? God knoweth!

Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought out among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

All the saints salute you.

for, indeed, He was crucified through weakness, but He liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of God toward you.

For, respecting the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;

and I will be to you a Father, and ye shall be My sons and daughters." saith the Lord Almighty.

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them, that I might minister to you;

and, being present with you, and being in want, I was a burden to no one; for the brethren, coming from Macedonia, supplied my lack; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself.

Salute one another with a holy kiss.

since ye seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, Who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you;

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is honorable, though we be rejected.

For this cause, I write these things while absent; that I may not, when present, deal sharply according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not casting down.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong; this also we pray for??our perfection.

But I hope that ye shall know, that we are not rejected.

and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.