But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Now then we are embassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it was but for a season.

Wherefore, though I wrote to you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:

Let such one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?