For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?

When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

Therefore we are not cowards. Nay, even though our outward man is wasting away, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared, we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts, recognize them too.

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.

On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were, making entreaty through our lips: we, on Christ's behalf, beseech men to be reconciled to God.

through honour and ignominy, through calumny and praise. We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men;

I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

For against one thing we are on our guard--I mean against blame being thrown upon us in respect to these large and liberal contributions which are under our charge.

For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also.

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner with me, and is my comrade in my labours for you. And as for our brethren, remember that they are delegates from the Churches, and are men in whom Christ is glorified.

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour,

and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man's sphere about work already done by him.

For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.

I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago-- whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)

And I know that this man-- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know;

See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.

This intended visit of mine is my third visit to you. "On the evidence of two or three witnesses every charge shall be sustained."