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

who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,

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

I had no rest in my spirit from not finding Titus my brother; but leaving them I went to Macedonia.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory epistles to you or from you?

And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven,

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

So that from henceforth we know no man after the flesh; and if we have known Christ after the flesh, we now know him no more.

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

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

now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to a change of mind; for you were grieved in a godly manner, to suffer injury from us in nothing.

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with regret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

for you endure it if any one reduces you to servitude, if any one devours you, if any one takes from you, if any one exalts himself against you, if any one beats you in the face.

often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,

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