He comforting us in all our trouble, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in every trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.

And our hope of you is certain, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the consolation.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us,

with you also helping together by prayer for us, so that the gracious gift by many persons be the cause of thanksgiving through many for us.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit,

Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no?

But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, except in part; so that I not overbear all of you.

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.

So I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

so that we should not be overreached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his devices.

And, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

But if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters in stone was with glory (so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his face), which was being done away;

And we are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of the thing being done away.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;

always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body.

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

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

For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have it to answer those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

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

We are in nothing giving cause of stumbling, in no way, so that the ministry may not be blamed,

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted over you, telling us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For even if I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret; if indeed I did regret; for I see that that letter grieved you for an hour.

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth.

for us to call on Titus, that even as he began before, so he would also complete this grace to you also.

But now also finish the doing of it, so that, as there was a readiness to will, so also the finishing, giving out of what you have.

but by equality in the present time; your abundance for their need, that their abundance also may be for your need; so that there may be equality;

and not only so, but also he having been chosen by the churches to travel with us with this gift, which is administered by us to the glory of the Lord Himself, and as a witness of your eager mind;

I say this lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.

But I say this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

Do you look at things according to appearance? If anyone has persuaded himself that he is Christ's, let him think this again as to himself, that as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.

so that I might not seem to terrify you by letters.

For indeed they say, the letters are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible.

to preach the gospel in that beyond you, and not to boast in another's rule in things made ready.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.

I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait.

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.