knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus, and will present us with you.

For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

For it is not, so that ease is for others and stress for you, but out of parity your abundance at the present time is for the need of those men.

But I pray not to be bold when present with the confidence by which I consider to be valiant toward some who consider us as walking according to flesh.

Let such a man think this, that such kind we are in word by letters when absent, we are also such kind when present in the work.

For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.

I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,

Because of this I write these things while absent, so that I may not act harshly when present, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.