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

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? We do not need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you, do we?

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

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

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.