Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust, that he will still deliver:

Having therefore this hope, we use great plainness of speech.

Great is my freedom of speech toward you; great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I exceedingly abound with joy, over all our affliction.

That in a great trial of affliction, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality:

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.

Therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose ends shall be according to their works.

In Damascus the governor under king Aretas, kept the city of the Damascenes with a guard, being determined to apprehend me.