(for he says: I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation:)

For this reason, come out from among them, and separate yourselves, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean person, and I will receive you;

and I will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

I do not say this to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, so that we could die with you, and live with you.

lest, possibly, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) might be made ashamed by this same confident boasting.

For his letters, says one, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his style of speech contemptible.

I say again, let no one think that I am without understanding; but if so, even as one without understanding bear with me, that I also may boast a little.

What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.