for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news is through all the assemblies,

The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's;

This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

I entreated Titus, and did send with him the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? -- did we not in the same steps?

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.