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

And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.

And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:

And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.

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.

Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us.

Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.

For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

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;

That we might not be taken advantage of by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his inventions.

And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?

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.

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

And if the service of death, in letters imprinted in stones, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently to the face of Moses for the glory of his face; being left unemployed

For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory.

For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling.

For if that left unemployed by glory, much more that remaining in glory.

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.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

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, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;

We looking not at things seen, but at things not seen: for things seen, temporary; and things not seen, eternal

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

For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on:

For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.

(For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:)

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.

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

For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart.

For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.

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

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

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.

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged.

Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I speak not to condemnation: for I have said before, ye are in our hearts to die together, and live together.

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For if I also grieved you in the epistle, I regret not, and if I did regret: for I see that that epistle, if also for a time, grieved you.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us.

For grief according to God works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but grief of the world works death.

For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him.

For according to power, I testify, and above power chosen voluntarily;

Praying us with much entreaty that we receive the grace and participation of the service for saints.

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.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not.

For not that ease to others, and pressure to you:

But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:

And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus.

For truly he received the entreaty; and being more earnest, he went forth voluntarily to you.

And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveller with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness:

Prepared for this, lest any blame us in this abundance served by us:

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

Therefore the manifestations of your love, and of your boasting for us, shew ye to them, and to the face of the churches.

For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.

And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared:

Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:

And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)

For the service of this office is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanks to God;

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 by their prayer for you, longing for you through the exceeding grace of God upon you.

And grace to God for his indescribable gift.

For walking in the flesh, we war not after the flesh:

(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.

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

Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance,

To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.

For not he recommending himself, this is acceptable, but whom the Lord recommends.

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.

For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.

For I reckon myself to be nothing greatly inferior to the sent.

And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service.