Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

As God is faithful, my message to you is not now "Yes," now "No."

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

so that now you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest he should be overwhelmed by the excess of his grief.

Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened to me in the Lord,

For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.

Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man??ven if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer.

For he said: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!

But now I am glad; not because you were pained; but because your pain led you to repentance.

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

So now complete the doing of it also, in order that just as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the accomplishment according to your means.

but burdens are to be equalized. Now your abundance at this present time present time is a supply for their want, in supply for your want; and so burdens be equalized,

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.