And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that you might have a second benefit;

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

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be obedient in all things.

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many increase to the glory of God.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Therefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause who had done the wrong, nor for his cause who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

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 be rich.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your gift, of which you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of gift, and not as an extortion.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.

Have I committed an offense in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were done among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.