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

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

Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;

And by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia, to come to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

And he making us firm with you in Christ, and having anointed us, is God;

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?

And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.

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

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

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

So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the:flesh, but now we know no more.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

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

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

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 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 am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren;

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and I escaped from his hands.

For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me.

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