Having therefore such hope, we use great plainness of speech;

Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on your account; I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our trouble.

that under a great trial of distress the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty increased the riches of their liberality;

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often in many things proved to be zealous, but now much more zealous through the great confidence which he hath in you.

It is no great thing, then, if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept guard over the city of the Damascenes, in order to apprehend me;