Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

Grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort,

Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Yea, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raiseth the dead:

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more especially toward you.

As God is faithful, our word to you hath not been yea and nay.

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.

For all the promises of God are yea in him, and amen in him, to the glory of God by us.

For he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and that hath anointed us is God:

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

Lest Satan get an advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Now thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph through Christ, and manifesteth by us in every place the odour of his knowledge.

For we are to God a sweet odour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

Manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Such trust have we in God through Christ.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God:

not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully corrupting the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Whose unbelieving minds the god of this world hath blinded, lest the illumination of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine upon them.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to inlighten us with the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

For all things are for your sakes, that the overflowing grace might through the thanksgiving of many abound to the glory of God.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Now he that hath wrought us to this very thing is God, who hath also given us the earnest of the Spirit.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive according to what he hath done in the body, whether good or evil.

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.

For if we are transported beyond ourselves, it is to God; if we are sober, it is for your sakes.

And all things are from God, who hath reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: Namely,

that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their traspasses to them, and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Therefore we are embassadors for Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For he hath made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him.

We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive 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,

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right-hand and the left:

Through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, yet true, As unknown, yet well-known;

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Now ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

Having therefore, beloved, these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But God who comforteth them that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

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.

Moreover, brethren, we declare to you the grace of God, bestowed on the churches in Macedonia,

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

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

Let every man do as he chuseth in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a chearful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that having always all sufficiency in all things, ye may abound to every good work:

Being inriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which worketh by us thanksgiving to God.

For the administration of this service, doth not only supply the necessities of the saints, but likewise aboundeth by the thanksgivings of many to God:

(Who, by experiment of this administration, glorify God for your avowed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal communication to them and to all men.)

And by their prayer for you, who long after you, for the exceeding grace of God, which is in you.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the throwing down of strong-holds.)

Destroying reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.

Have I committed an offence in humbling myself, that ye might be exalted, because I have preached the gospel of God to you at free cost?

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.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

I knew a man in Christ, above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not; God knoweth) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Yea, I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth) That he was caught up into paradise,

Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification.

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: and we also are weak with him; but we shall live with him, by the power of God in you.

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.

Finally, brethren, farewel: be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.