If we meet with trouble, it is for the sake of your consolation and salvation; and, if we find consolation, it is for the sake of the consolation that you will experience when you are called to endure the very sufferings that we ourselves are enduring;

We write no other things unto you, than that ye read and also know. Yea, and I trust ye shall find us unto the end

even as ye have found us partly, for we are your rejoicing, even as ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not found yea and nay, but in him hath been found yea.

For as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are [all answered] “Yes.” So through Him we say our “Amen” to the glory of God.

For that is why I wrote you??o find out how you would stand the test, and see if you would obey me absolutely.

When I went to Troas to preach the good news of the Christ there, I found a good opening for the Lord's work,

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

We are pressured in every way [hedged in], but not crushed; perplexed [unsure of finding a way out], but not driven to despair;

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

we put no obstruction in anyone’s path, so that the ministry will not be discredited,

Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found? Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever?

For even after I had gotten to Macedonia, my frail, human nature could find no relief; I was crushed with sorrow at every turn -- fighting without and fears within.

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

And with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow-Christians.

I am not saying this [to you] as a command, but by telling you how eager others are [to help], to find out how genuine your love is also.

besides, he has been appointed by the churches to travel with me on the business of administering this fund to the glory of the Lord. His appointment has my full consent,

We are taking precaution so that no one will [find anything with which to] discredit us in our administration of this generous gift.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found to be diligent in many things, but who is now even more diligent [than ever] because of his great confidence in you.

With reference, indeed, to the Fund for your fellow-Christians, it is quite superfluous for me to say anything to you.

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

For the ministry of this service (offering) is not only supplying the needs of the saints (God’s people), but is also overflowing through many expressions of thanksgiving to God.

I implore you not to drive me to "show my boldness," when I do come, by the confident tone which I expect to have to adopt towards some of you, who are expecting to find us influenced in our conduct by earthly motives.

For we cannot find in our hearts to make ourselves of the number of them, or to compare ourselves to them, which laud themselves. Nevertheless, while they measure themselves with themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they understand nought.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.

I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

But I trust you will find I am no failure,