For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay

And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him.

And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

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

I have had no relaxation to my spirit, in my not finding Titus my brother: but having taken leave of them, I went out to Macedonia.

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

For we know that if our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the:flesh, but now we know no more.

So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.

(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed:

For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were grieved, but that ye were grieved to repentance: for ye were grieved according to God, that ye be injured in nothing by us.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.

But of equality, now in this time your abundance for their want, that also their abundance be for your want: that there be equality:

And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.

And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)

No great thing therefore if also his servants are transformed as servants of justice; whose end shall be according to their works.

I knew a man in Christ before fourteen years, (whether in the body, I know not; whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;) such a one having been carried off even to the third heaven.

And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, whether out of the body, I know not: God knows;)

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

Since seek proof of Christ speaking in me, who to you is no weak, but has power in you.

Try yourselves, if ye are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless ye are not tried?

And I hope that ye shall know that we are not untried.