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

But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage

And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

I had no rest in my spirit, my not finding Titus my brother. But having departed from them, I went forth into Macedonia.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?

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

But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of Lord.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,

For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

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

For also in this we groan, longing to clothe ourselves with our habitation from heaven,

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him.

And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

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

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing.

Because of this we have been encouraged. And from your encouragement, we rejoiced to a greater degree more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, even from the depth of their poverty, abounded for the wealth of their generosity,

I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

And now also finish the doing, so that just as was the willingness of the intending, so also to finish from the having.

For I know your willingness, which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from a year ago. And your zeal provoked the majority.

Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold.

From the Jews five times I received forty save one.

in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among FALSE brothers,

For if I should want to boast, I will not be foolish, for I will speak the truth. But I refrain lest any man should reckon to me above what he sees of me or hears anything from me.

I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me.

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.