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

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

It is all in your interests, so that the more grace abounds, the more thanksgiving may rise and redound to the glory of God.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

Now, brothers, I have to tell you about the grace God has given to the churches of Macedonia.

they are drawn to you and pray for you, on account of the surpassing grace which God has shown to you.

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

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