And I wrote this same epistle unto you, lest if I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice. Certainly this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Nevertheless when they turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

and are ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

If the truth of Christ be in me, this rejoicing shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

I say again, lest any man think that I am foolish: or else even now take me as a fool, that I may boast myself a little.

For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

I know a man in Christ above fourteen years agone - whether he were in the body I cannot tell, or whether he were out of the body I cannot tell; God knoweth - which was taken up into the third heaven.

how that he was taken up into paradise, and heard words not to be spoken, which no man can utter.