And in this confidence I intended to go to you before, that you might have a second benefit;

for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me?

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but. of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

For that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that surpasses.

always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

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

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Knowing, then, the fearful judgment of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest to God. I hope, indeed, that we are also made manifest in your consciences.

for he has made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Regard us cordially; we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have made gain by no one.

Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of him who did the wrong, nor on account of him who received the wrong; but that our diligent care for you, in the sight of God, might be made manifest to you.

For if I boasted of you to him, in any respect, I am not made ashamed; but as I have spoken all things to you in truth, so also has our boasting to Titus been found to be truth:

beseeching us, with much entreaty, that they might give, and take part in the ministering to the saints;

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

lest, possibly, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) might be made ashamed by this same confident boasting.

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

so as to preach the gospel in regions beyond you, and not to boast in regions made ready under another man's line.

Have I committed a sin, in making myself lowly, that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel to you without cost?

And, lest I should be too much exalted by the excellence of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much exalted.

With regard to this, I three times entreated the Lord that it might leave me;

and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me.