Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of being allowed to share in the service now being rendered to God's people.

Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.

That, of Christ, a grateful odour, are we, unto God, - in them who are being saved, and in them who are being lost:

This, let such a one reckon - that, what we are, in our word, through means of letters, being absent, such, also, being present, are we, in our deed.

I have said before, and I say it before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss;

being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

I robbed other churches, having received support for your ministry, and being present with you and being destitute, I burdened no one;

For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.

But the minds of the Israelites became dull for, to this very day, the same veil remains on them [i.e., figuratively] when the Old Agreement [Scriptures] are read. It is not being revealed to them that the Old Agreement is being abolished by Christ [i.e., by His death on the cross. See Col. 2:14].

For he not only accepted our urging, but being very diligent himself, he went to you of his own accord [i.e. Titus had wanted to go to Corinth even before being urged to].

Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:

Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him.

As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed;

Now when I came to Troas for the publication of the glad tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in the Lord,

For ye bear fools readily, being wise.

And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

being made rich in every [way] for all generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of the heart.

if indeed being also clothed we shall not be found naked.

For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in you, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.

But be it so. I did not burden you, but being crafty I took you by guile.