Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:

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

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort:

Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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.

And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.

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.

Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us.

And he making us firm with you in Christ, and having anointed us, is God;

And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

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.

And we have such confidence through Christ to God:

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

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.

And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid:

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us.

For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.

For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.

For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;

For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain.

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

In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

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.

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God given in the churches of Macedonia;

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

And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus.

And we sent with him the brother whose approbation in the good news through all the churches;

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

Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:

Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God.

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

By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

And by their prayer for you, longing for you through the exceeding grace of God upon you.

And grace to God for his indescribable gift.

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

Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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.

For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ:

To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.

For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.

For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.

Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.

God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows, he being praised forever, that I lie not.

I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven.

And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;)

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

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.

As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit with you all. Amen.