For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

And, brothers, we declare to you the grace of God that has been given in the congregations of Macedonia,

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

But thanks to God who gives the same eagerness for you in the heart of Titus.

Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age.

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.