It was because I was sure of this that I wanted to come to see you before going anywhere else, to give you a double pleasure;

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life.

I am glad of it now; not because you had your feelings hurt, but because having them hurt led you to repent, for you took it as God meant you to do, so that you should not lose anything at all through me.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

then they will long for you and pray for you, because of the extraordinary favor God has shown you.

Do you think that I did wrong in degrading myself to uplift you, because I preached God's good news to you without any compensation?

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.