May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!

For this is what we boast about: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with pure motives and godly sincerity, without earthly wisdom but with God's grace especially toward you.

All this is for your sake so that, as his grace spreads, more and more people will give thanks and glorify God.

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

We want you to know, brothers, about God's grace that was given to the churches of Macedonia.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

And so in their prayers for you they will long for you because of God's exceptional grace that was shown to you.

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you!