Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you.

For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;

And I pray, being present, not to be bold with the confidence which I reckon to encounter against certain, reckoning us as walking about according to the flesh.

Let such a one reckon this, that, such as we are in the word by the epistles, being away, such also, being present, in deed.

For I am zealous of you with the zeal of God: for I fitted you to one husband, to present a pure virgin to Christ.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.