For I was in great trouble and distress of mind when I wrote you, and I shed many tears as I did it, yet it was not to hurt your feelings, but to make you realize the extraordinary affection I have for you.

in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.

every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;

The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia.

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;