It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.

But if we are afflicted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

not to call upon you as I pass into Macedonia, but in my return from thence, to be conducted by you toward Judea.

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

For God's son Jesus Christ which was preached among you by us - that is to say, by me and Silvanus and Timothy - was not "yea" and "nay": but in him it was "Yea."

But with Him it is always "Yes," for, as many as the promises of God may be, through Him they are always "Yes." This is why our "Amen" through Him is for the glory of God when spoken by us.

But it is God who guarantees us and you to Christ; he has anointed us

But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

Not that we be lords over your faith: but helpers of your joy. For by faith ye stand.

But I determined this in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

For if I make you sorry: who is it that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

If any man hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry: but partly - lest I should grieve - you all.

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

But when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but took my leave of them and went away into Macedonia.

But thank God! he always leads me in his triumphal train, through Christ, and spreads the perfume of knowledge of him everywhere through me as his censer-bearer.

In these, indeed, a fragrance out of death into death, but, in those, a fragrance out of life into life. And, for these things, who is sufficient?

For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.

in that ye are known, how that ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us and written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

But, such confidence as this, have we, through the Christ, towards God.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as it were of ourselves; but our ableness cometh of God;

which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

But if the religion of death, carved in letters of stone, was ushered in with such splendor, so that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face on account of the brightness that was fading from it,

For if that [Law] which fades away came with glory, how much more must that [gospel] which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor!

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

But their minds were blinded. For until this day remaineth the same covering, untaken away, in the old testament when they read it - which in Christ is put away:

But even unto this day, when Moses is read the veil hangeth before their hearts.

but "whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed."

Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all behold the glory of the Lord with his face open, and we are changed unto the same similitude, from glory to glory, even of the spirit of the Lord.

Therefore having this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not: But have renounced the hidden things of shame,

but have cast from us the cloaks of unhonesty, and walk not in craftiness, neither corrupt we the word of God: but walk in open truth, and report ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus to be the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellent power of it might appear to be of God, and not of us.

We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.

We are persecuted: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: nevertheless we perish not.

cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours.

But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak:

Wherefore, we are not wearied: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

while we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For things which are seen, are temporal: but things which are not seen are eternal.

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

But he that hath wrought us for this very thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the spirit.

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

for we walk by faith, not by sight; but we have courage,

and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

We praise not ourselves again unto you, but give you an occasion to rejoice of us, that ye may have somewhat against them, which rejoice in the face, and not in the heart.

and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

But all these things are from God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and made us ministers of the reconciliation;

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting people’s sins against them [but canceling them]. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation [that is, restoration to favor with God].

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed, But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,

but in all things let us behave ourselves as the ministers of God. In much patience, in afflictions, in necessity, in anguish,

amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet,

sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.

ye are in no strait in us, but are in a strait in your own hearts.

but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let your heart also expand itself.

Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: Outward was fighting, inward was fear.

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted me by the coming of Titus,

And not with his coming only: but also with the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you. For he told us your desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward: So that I now rejoice the more.

Wherefore though I made you sorry with a letter I repent not: though I did repent. For I perceive that that same Epistle made you sorry though it were but for a season.

But I now rejoice, not that ye were sorry, but that ye so sorrowed, that ye repented.

For the pain that God approves results in a repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets; but the world's pain results in death.

for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that did hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that our good mind which we have toward you in the sight of God, might appear unto you

Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all;

If I did express some pride in you to him, I have had no reason to be ashamed of it, but just as all I said to you was true, my boasting before Titus has also proved true.

But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

so that we could not but desire Titus to accomplish the same benevolence among you also, even as he had begun.

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.

And I give counsel hereto: For this is expedient for you, which began - not to do only, but also to will - a year ago.

But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

for what a man gives with a ready mind, according to his abilities, is well received; but not when he goes beyond his circumstances.

It is not my mind that other be set at ease, and ye brought into cumbrance: but that there be equalness now at this time,

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

for he has responded to my appeal, but he goes to you really of his own accord, he is so devoted to you.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

and not so only, but is also chosen of the congregations to be a fellow with us in our journey, as concerning this benevolence that is ministered by us unto the praise of the Lord, and to stir up your prompt mind.

and therefore make provision for honest things, not in the sight of God only, but also in the sight of men.

We have sent with them a brother of ours, whom we have oft times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent. The great confidence which I have in you

Of the ministering to the saints, it is but superfluous for me to write unto you:

But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will;

So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift.

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.

But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work: