knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.