For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

Therefore I beseech you to affirm love for him.

to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body.

For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

So death indeed works in us, but life in you.

For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.

For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;

I speak not for condemnation, for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, be that ye may also abound in this kindness.

I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

Therefore show ye the proof of your love and our boast about you, for them in the face of the congregations.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with all of you. Truly.