Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I had confidence in all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.

I still had no rest in my mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took my leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turnconflicts on the outside and fears within.

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, he would also complete in you this work of grace.

As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me,