yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.

if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

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

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

for fear that, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to say you yourselves--should be put to the blush in respect to this confidence.

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

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire; that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling, party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;