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

who delivered us from so great a death, and does still deliver us: in whom we have confidence, that he will continue to deliver us,

and by you, to pass through into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and be conducted by you into Judea.

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house that is from heaven,

Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For this reason, come out from among them, and separate yourselves, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean person, and I will receive you;

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself.

But what I am -doing I will also continue to do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they boast, they may be found even as we.

For you bear it, if one enslave you, if one devour you, if one take from you, if one exalt himself, if one smite you on the face,

From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one;

In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.

To boast is not suitable for me; I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord. -