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

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust, that he will still deliver:

and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be brought forward by you in my way toward Judea.

And I wrote thus to you, that I might not when I come have grief from those for whom I ought to rejoice; being persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

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

Do we again begin to recommend ourselves? Unless we need, as some do, recommendatory letters to you, or recommendatory letters from you?

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God:

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

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

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

Therefore we always behave undauntedly; knowing that while we are sojourning in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

So that we from this time know no one after the flesh; yea, if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

And all things are from God, who hath reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: Namely,

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean person, saith the Lord, and I will receive you,

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

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: from without were fightings, from within were fears.

But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.

For the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want; and I have in all things kept myself from being burdensom, and will keep myself.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

if he devour you, if he take from you, if he exalt himself, if he smite you on the face.

Five times I received from the Jews forty stripes save one.

in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren:

Beside the things which are from without, that which rusheth upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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

For if I should resolve to boast, I should not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any one should think of me above what he seeth me, or heareth from me.

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