For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me?

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

For if the ministry of condemnation is glorious, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.

For if that which has been done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

Make room for us. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we overreached no one.

My boldness of speech is great toward you; my glorying on your behalf is much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.

For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.

And, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given among the churches of Macedonia;

that in much testing of trouble, the overflowing of their joy, and the depth of their poverty, abounded to the riches of their generosity.

with much beseeching, begging us that they might receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.

as it is written, "He gathering much, he had nothing left over; and he gathering little did not have less."

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which I have in you.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of blessing, and not as of covetousness.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;