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:

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort.

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.

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

And to whom ye show any favor; I also: for also if I have shown any kindness, to whom I have shown kindness, through you in the face of Christ;

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:

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.

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

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.

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.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

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.

So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.

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.

And what conformity to Christ with Belial? and what part to the believing with the unbelieving?

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

Whether for Titus, my companion and co-worker to you: or our brethren, the sent of the churches, the glory of Christ.

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 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:

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

See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.

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

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.

And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.

The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

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 he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.

Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

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

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

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