We are afflicted on every side, yet not reduced to extremities; under difficulties, yet not in despair;

persecuted, yet not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death;

And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.

For though I may be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but on every occasion we have been made manifest in all things among you.