If I am in trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation, and if I am comforted, it is for the sake of the comfort which you experience when you steadfastly endure such sufferings as I also have to bear.

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

But I have this treasure in a mere ear then jar, to show that its amazing power belongs to God and not to me.

the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left,

pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

For even when I reached Macedonia, my poor human nature could get no relief??here was trouble at every turn; fighting without, and fear within.

For they have given to the utmost of their ability, as I can bear them witness, and beyond it,

You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

as the Scripture says, "He scatters his gifts to the poor; His uprightness will never be forgotten."

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

I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.

Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for??he perfecting of your characters.