For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of your love.

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

so that death works in us, but life in you.

For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

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

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

but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

Shew therefore to them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love, and of our boasting about you.

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

for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.