(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

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: