For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the tribulation which came to us in Asia, that above measure we have been burdened beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life:

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.

To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

always bearing about in the body the death pangs of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

For we who are yet alive are continually delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Wherefore death indeed is working in us, but life in you.

For we which are in this tabernacle, groan, being burdened; wherein we desire not to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death;

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

So as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and elocution, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you.

Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

For though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God [displayed] towards you.

Finally, brethren, rejoice: be perfectly united together, be comforted, be of one mind, live in 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 Ghost be with you all. Amen.