For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,

Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

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

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was, yes!

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

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

I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.

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

and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

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

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

(For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you;" Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.)

We are in nothing giving cause of stumbling, in no way, so that the ministry may not be blamed,

Make room for us. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we overreached no one.

For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside, and fears on the inside.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.

But now also finish the doing of it, so that, as there was a readiness to will, so also the finishing, giving out of what you have.

avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us;

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which I have in you.

For I know your eagerness, of which I boast to Macedonia on your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused the greater number.

Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.

I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in the body, I do not know; or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows) such a one was caught up to the third Heaven.

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

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?

But I trust that you will know that we are not reprobates.

For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth.