And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.

Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;

Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

Wherefore we lose not courage; but if also our man without is destroyed, but he within is renewed day and day.

We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal

For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.

For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart.

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the:flesh, but now we know no more.

But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities,

Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels.

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

But God, comforting the humble, comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.

For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:

And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveller with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness:

Providing good things beforehand, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God;

And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:

(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.

And we boast not of things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure divided to us, to reach even also to you.

But he boasting, let him boast in the Lord.

For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.

And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in madness, in this first principle of boasting.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

And "let it be, I overloaded you not: but being dexterous, I took you by contrivance.

Since seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who to you is no weak, but has power in you.

For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.

And I pray to God that ye do nothing evil; not that we appear tried, but that ye do good, and we be as untried.

For we are not able anything against the truth, but for the truth.