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

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

Indeed, everything is for your benefit, so that grace, extended through more and more people, may cause thanksgiving to increase to God’s glory.

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia:

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

Now as you excel in everything—faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us—excel also in this grace.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

And they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.