May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

For we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life.

So I beg you to restore him to his place in your affections.

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

and not as Moses used to place a veil over his face, in order that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was transitory.

So, because I hold a place in this ministry and that because I have had God's mercy shown me, I never give up.

Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

For all [these] things are for your sake, so that as [God’s remarkable, undeserved] grace reaches to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of [our great] God.

For indeed, we groan while in this "house," longing to be covered over by our heavenly dwelling place,

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

[We try] not to place an obstacle in anyone's way [i.e., to keep them from accepting the Gospel message], so that our ministry would not be blamed.

Ye have not a narrow place in my heart, but ye have a narrow place for me in yours.

Give place to us! no one, have we wronged, no one, have we corrupted, no one, have we defrauded.

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

I rejoice that I place confidence in you in everything.

God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others;

But perhaps I did wrong in taking a humble place that you might have a high one ??I mean, in preaching the gospel of God to you for nothing!

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

was [actually] taken up into Paradise. [Note: This is the same as the "third heaven" of the previous verse, and was a place in the presence of God. See Luke 23:43; Rev. 2:7]. There he heard inexpressible words which are not permitted for people to repeat.