because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

And our hope is stedfast in your behalf; knowing that, as you are the partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the consolation.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction taking place in Asia, because we were burthened exceedingly, above our power, so that we despaired even of living:

who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;

For so many promises of God, in Him are yes; therefore indeed through him they are Amen unto the glory to God through us.

so on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one may be swallowed up with excessive grief.

But if the ministry of death, having been written in letters of stone, was in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look upon the face of Moses on account of the glory of his countenance; which was destined to be done away:

So that death works in us, but life in you.

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

So if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted by you, proclaiming unto us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

But if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if indeed I did regret it; for I see that, if that letter indeed grieved you for an hour,

because if I have gloried with him in anything over you, I wag not made ashamed; but as I spoke all things to you in truth, so our rejoicing over Titus was true.

not only so, but having been elected by the churches our traveling companion with this philanthropy, administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and your promptitude:

lest perhaps, if the Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we may be put to shame, in this confidence, (that we may say not, you).

and through their prayer in your behalf, earnestly longing to see you on account of the grace of God superabounding unto you.

Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If any has trusted to himself that he belongs to Christ, let him again consider this in reference to himself, that as he belongs to Christ, so do we also.

Because they say, His letters are indeed weighty and powerful; but the presence of his body is weak, and his speech contemptible.

for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.

Again I say, Let no one consider me to be a fool; but if not, receive me as a fool, in order that I may indeed glory some little.

What I say, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of glorying.

Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Therefore I delight in infirmities, in insults, in difficulties, in persecutions, and in tight places, for Christ's sake: for when I am without strength, then I am dynamite.

But let it he so, I did not burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.