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For we write no other things to you, but what ye know and acknowledge, and I trust will acknowledge even to the end.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyWriting LettersMaking The Message ClearReading Other Matter

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

Verse ConceptsHeraldPreaching, Content OfAssentingDissentGod Changing His MindIdentity In Christ

But I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth.

Verse ConceptsAppealing To GodThe Witness Of God

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye have stood.

Verse ConceptsStabilityStanding FirmLording ItWorking TogetherRespecting Authority

But I determined this with myself not to come to you again in grief.

Verse ConceptsVisitingPeople Visiting

For if I grieve you, who is he that cheareth me, but he that is grieved by me?

And if any have caused grief, he hath grieved me but in part, that I may not overburden you all.

Verse Conceptsgrieving

To these an odour of death unto death, but to those an odour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Verse ConceptsControlling Your ThoughtsLife And DeathBeing SavedDeath Of Loved OneDeath Of A MotherBeing LostFeeling Lostatheismothers

So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,

Verse ConceptsLife And DeathLife After Death

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Verse ConceptsCorruption Of Bodyeternal life, experience ofMortalityClothed With Good ThingsNaked In ShameLife And Death

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

Verse ConceptsConvincingevangelists, ministry ofHope, Nature OfPersuasionReverence, And ObedienceAmbassadors For ChristResponsibilityKnowing Godconsciencemotives

We do not again recommend ourselves to you; but we give you an occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have something to answer them, who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Verse ConceptsCommendationOutward AppearanceHypocrites, Description OfAppearancesCommending OneselfOther References To The HeartAppearances of

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

Verse ConceptsBlamelessness, In Christian LivingOffenceDo Not HinderMinistrynegativity

Ye are not straitened in us; but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

Verse ConceptsAffectionEmotions

And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted over you, when he told us your earnest desire, your grief, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingJoy, Of The ChurchMourning In RegretRight Desires

For I do not repent that I grieved you by the letter, though I did repent: (for I see that letter grieved you, though but for a season.)

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineA Short TimeShort Time For ActionRegrettingHurtSeasons Changinggrievinghurting

Now I rejoice, not that ye grieved, but that ye grieved to repentance; for ye grieved in a godly manner, so that ye received damage by us in nothing.

Verse ConceptsRepentanceNo Loss

And though I wrote to you, it was not for his sake who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had suffered it, but for the sake of manifesting to you in the sight of God our diligent care over you.

So that if I had boasted any thing of you to him, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our boasting to Titus is found a truth.

Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoasting

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun a year ago, not only to do, but also to do it willingly.

Verse ConceptsGood Human AdviceOpinionsOne YearRight DesiresMan's Work FinishedCompetition

For I do not mean, that others should be eased, and you burthened; But by an equality,

Verse ConceptsHelping OthersHard WorkHardshipHelping Others In Needfairnessrelaxation

But thanks be to God, who put the same diligent care for you in the heart of Titus.

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingThanksgiving, OfferedThank God!

For he accepted indeed the exhortation, but being more forward, he went to you of his own accord.

Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

but he was also appointed by the churches to be a fellow-traveller with us, with this gift, which is administred by us, to the glory of the Lord himself,

Verse ConceptsHonorReadinessMan Appointing

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, through his great confidence in you.

Verse ConceptsOptimismTrusting Other PeoplePeople Sending People

For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersContempt, Examples OfEloquenceIn Men's PresenceWeaknessSpeech

For we presume not to equal or to compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves: but they among themselves limiting themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

Verse ConceptsSelf DeceptionThoughtComparingBeing Without UnderstandingCommending OneselfCompetitionmeasurement

But we will not boastingly extend ourselves beyond our measure; but according to the measure of the providence, which God hath allotted us, a measure to reach even unto you.

Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoastinglimitationsmeasurement

For if I am unskilful in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly manifest to you in all things.

Verse ConceptsEloquenceAmateursPeople With KnowledgeSpeech

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingAlways Being ActivePersistencerecognition

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; but if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I also may boast a little.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePaul's BoastingBoasting

What I speak, I speak not after the Lord; but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePeople Lacking AuthorityBoasting

Of such an one I will glory; but I will not glory of myself, unless in my infirmities.

Verse ConceptsBoasting ExcludedPaul's BoastingIdentityBoasting

For if I should resolve to boast, I should not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me, or heareth from me.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfOverestimationFoolish PeopleSeeing PeoplePaul's Boasting

I am become a fool in boasting; but ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing have I fallen short of the very chief apostles, though I am nothing.

Verse ConceptsCommendationApostles, IdentficationFalse Teachers, Examples OfFoolish PeopleRelative GreatnessFalse ApostlesOutward CompulsionPraising Specific PeopleI Am Unimportant

But be it so: I did not burden you: but being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Verse ConceptsShrewdnessTrickeryThose Who DeceivedOverloadDeception

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofPower Through GodProofsSpeaking As From God

Now I pray God, that ye may do no evil: not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is good, though we should be as reprobates.

Verse ConceptsCauses of failure inPraying For Othersexams

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Verse ConceptsThose Against TruthAgainst The Truth