For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.

as you have also acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit,

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

And we have such confidence through Jesus Christ in God;

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us,

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you occasion to glory on our account, that you may have something for those that glory in appearance and not in heart.

So that from henceforth we know no man after the flesh; and if we have known Christ after the flesh, we now know him no more.

So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

Receive us; we have injured no one, we have destroyed no one, we have defrauded no one.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts both to die and live together.

I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on your account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all our afflictions.

I rejoice that I have confidence in you in every thing.

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

And even if I am rude in speech, I certainly am not in knowledge, but we have been made fully manifest to you in all things.

Have I done wrong to humble myself that you might be exalted, that I preached the gospel of God to you gratuitously?

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;

I have become foolish; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing am I behind the chief of the apostles, though I also am nothing.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;