So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

[We are] trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us.

lest somehow if Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we--{not to speak of you}--would be humiliated in connection with this project.

Therefore I considered [it] necessary to urge the brothers that they should go on ahead to you and make arrangements in advance for your generous gift that was promised previously, so this would be prepared as a generous gift and not as grudgingly granted.

Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced he himself is Christ's, he should consider this concerning himself again: that just as Christ himself [is], so also [are] we.