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:

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.

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;

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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;

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.

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.

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.

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