and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia. Then my plan was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward by you to Judaea.

and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.

Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,

yet, obtaining no relief for my spirit because I did not find our brother Titus, I bade them farewell and went on into Macedonia.

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?

For we overthrow arrogant 'reckonings,' and every stronghold that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God, and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--into subjection to Christ;

Let such people take this into their reckoning, that whatever we are in word by our letters when absent, the same are we also in act when present.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin, and I am not aflame with indignation?

God knows--was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable things which no human being is permitted to repeat.