For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

not to condemn you do I say it, for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

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