Now thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ, and He revealing through us the odor of the knowledge of Him in every place.

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

(For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you;" Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

But now also finish the doing of it, so that, as there was a readiness to will, so also the finishing, giving out of what you have.

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.

Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.