who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

as you have also known us in part, because we are your glorying, as you ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And in this confidence I wished to come unto you sooner, that you may have a second grace;

And I wrote this same thing, in order that, having come, I may not have grief over those from whom it behooves me to rejoice; and having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you through many tears; not in order that you may be grieved, but that you may know the divine love which I have unto you exceedingly.

But to whom you forgive anything, I do also: for indeed whatsoever I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the face of Christ;

Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?

But we have such confidence through Christ towards God,

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

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order 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 may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made manifest unto God; and I hope that we have indeed been made manifest in your consciences.

We are not commending ourselves to you, but giving you occasion of boasting in our behalf, in order that you may have response to those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we have our right minds, it is for you.

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

But working together we indeed intreat you not to have received the grace of God in vain:

Receive us: we have injured no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

I do not speak for castigation: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die with you and to live with you.

My boldness to you is great, my rejoicing over you is much: I have been filled with consolation, I superabound with joy in all our tribulation.

For behold, how great enthusiasm, yes, how great apology, yes, how great clearing up, yes, how great fear, yes, how great longing, yes, how great zeal, yes, how great avenging, this same godly sorrow did work in you! In everything you have established yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Therefore we have been comforted. But we rejoiced the more exceedingly in our consolation over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all:

because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

I rejoice because in everything I have confidence in you.

For if there is first a willing mind, it is acceptable according to what one may have, and not according to what he has not.

And we sent our brother along with him to them, whom we have tried, being frequently zealous in many things, but now much more zealous, with great confidence towards you.

For not as not reaching unto you do we stretch ourselves, for we have advanced in the gospel of Christ even unto you:

For if indeed one coming preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, well do you bear with him.

I have become a fool: you did compel me. For I ought to be commended by you: for I am not inferior to the very chief of the apostles, if indeed I am nothing.

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

I have told you beforehand, and I am speaking to you in advance, as being present the second time, even now absent, that, if I may come to you again, I will not spare those who have previously sinned, and all the rest;