And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

But I determined this in myself, not to come again to you in sadness.

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

Now having come to Troas for the good-news of the Christ, and a door having been opened to me in Lord,

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within.

if somehow Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we might not say, ye) would be embarrassed in this confidence of boast.

For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

(Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of Lord.

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.

I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,