He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us. We have put our hope in Him that He will deliver us again

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”; on the contrary, a final “Yes” has come in Him.

Now it is God who strengthens us, with you, in Christ and has anointed us.

He has also sealed us and given us the Spirit as a down payment in our hearts.

If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree—not to exaggerate—to all of you.

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless.

That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

We have spoken openly to you, Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.

For if the eagerness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

As it has been written:

The person who gathered much
did not have too much,
and the person who gathered little
did not have too little.

For I know your eagerness, and I brag about you to the Macedonians: “Achaia has been prepared since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

As it is written:

He scattered;
He gave to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever.

We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.

so that we may proclaim the good news to the regions beyond you, not boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.