For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.

For as many as [are the] promises of God, in him [they are] "yes"; therefore also through him [is] the "amen" to the glory of God through us.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Therefore I urge you to confirm [your] love for him.

But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}.

And his affection for you is all the more [when he] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [has become known] throughout all the churches.

But "the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

I urged Titus [to go], and I sent the brother [with him]. Titus did not take advantage of you, [did he]? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps?

For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.