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

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

(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);

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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;

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

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

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.

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.

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;

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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;

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?

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

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.