Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

And in this confidence I intended to visit you, before going elsewhere, that you might have a pleasure twice over.

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

For this very purpose also I wrote you (before), that I might test you, to see if you were obedient in every respect.

For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

for the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but mighty for God, in pulling down all fortresses.

"His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

I have a divine jealousy on your behalf; for I betrothed you to one only husband, even to Christ, that I might present you to him, a chaste virgin.

Is it a sin, forsooth, that I humbled myself that you might be exalted, in preaching the gospel to you free of cost?

Concerning this, three times over I supplicated the Lord that it might leave me;