Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

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

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

Who consoleth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to console those who are in any tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

yea, we ourselves had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, Who raiseth the dead;

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

But, as God is faithful, our word to you is not "Yea" and "Nay."

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you through us??hrough me and Sylvanus and Timothy??as not "Yea" and "Nay," "Nay," but in Him is "Yea."

For however many are the promises of God, in Him is the "Yea"; wherefore, also, through Him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

Now He Who confirmeth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

But I invoke God as a witness upon my soul, that, as sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth.

But thanks be to God, Who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place;

because we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;

For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

being made manifest that ye are Christ's epistle ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

And such confidence have we through Christ toward God:

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God;

but we renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.

because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness may be of God, and not from ourselves;

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

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

Now He Who wrought us for this very thing is God, Who gave to us the earnest of the Spirit.

Being, therefore, always of good courage, and knowing that, while dwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord

we are of good courage, I say, and are well pleased to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to the things which he practiced, whether good or evil.

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

For whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is for you.

But all things are of God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having put in us the word of reconciliation.

On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God

Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf, that we may become God's righteousness in Him.

And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

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

But God, who consoleth the lowly, consoled us by the coming of Titus;

So, although I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong, but that your earnest care on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God.

I rejoice, that in everything I have good courage concerning you.

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God which has been bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

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

But thanks be to God Who putteth the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus.

Let each one do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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

ye being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

Because the ministry of this service not only fully supplies the deficiencies of the saints, but abounds also through many thanksgivings to God;

through the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

they also, with supplication for you, longing after you on account of the exceeding grace of God upon you.

Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!

(for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God for the casting down of strongholds);

casting down reasonings, and every high thing lifting itself up against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the limit which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even to you.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself, that ye might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of God without cost?

Wherefore? because I do not love you? God knoweth!

But what I am doing, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion from those desiring occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not, God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the Third Heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not, God knoweth),

Think ye all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you? Before God in Christ we are speaking; and all, beloved, for your edification.

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

for, indeed, He was crucified through weakness, but He liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of God toward you.

Now we pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is honorable, though we be rejected.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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