Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus'sake.

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus'sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),

On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be'strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you: