Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort.

And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:

Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;

And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

As also ye observed us by part, that we are your boast, as also ye ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.

Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us.

And he making us firm with you in Christ, and having anointed us, is God;

Who also having sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

Begin we again to recommend ourselves or need we not, as some; recommendatory epistles to you, or recommendatory from you?

Made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ served by us, not written with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables made of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

Therefore having such hope, we use much freedom of speech:

And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed:

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart

And whenever it turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.