and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts both to die and live together.

for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed, but as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you to Titus was truth.

But I sent the brothers, that our boasting of you may not be in vain in this respect, as I said you were prepared,

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;