And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved for repentance. For ye were grieved toward God, so that ye might suffer loss from us in nothing.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

if somehow Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we might not say, ye) would be embarrassed in this confidence of boast.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds,

But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

Or did I commit a sin lowering myself so that ye might be lifted up, because I preached to you the good-news of God freely?

But what I do, I also will do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire an opportunity, that in what they boast, they might appear just as we also.

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.

I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me.

Indeed the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

Now I pray to God, to do you nothing harmful, not that we would appear test-passing, but that ye would do right, even like we might be test-failing.