For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of the trouble which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly pressed, above our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

I beseech you therefore to confirm your love toward him.

To these an odour of death unto death, but to those an odour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

We who live are always delivered unto death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal body.

So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,

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

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

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

By purity, by prudence, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

as dying, yet behold we live; as chastened, yet not killed;

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

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

I speak not by way of command, but that by the diligence of others, I may prove the sincerity of your love.

Shew therefore to them before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

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

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: and we also are weak with him; but we shall live with him, by the power of God in you.

Finally, brethren, farewel: be perfect, be of good comfort, 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.