And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

He has also set his seal upon me, and given me the pledge of his Spirit in my heart.

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

If you forgive the man, I forgive him, too; for whatever I have forgiven has been forgiven in the presence of Christ,

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Indeed that which once was glorious has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.

Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them.

For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died;

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation.

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?

What concord has Christ with Belial? What portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

And what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

More than that, he is the one chosen by the churches to accompany me on my journey, in administering this gift of yours for the Lord's glory. And this has my full consent,

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question.

I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me?? sphere which reaches even to you.

but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."