For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by usby me and Silvanus and Timothywas not Yes and No, but in him it has always been Yes.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

always carrying about in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

For we who live are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Therefore we are always of good courage; and we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may have an abundance for every good work.