For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

I am not saying this to blame you, for as I have already said, I hold you in my heart to live together and to die together.

Even if I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret; though I did regret it when I saw that my letter had caused you pain, even for a time.

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ.

For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.