As surely as God can be relied on, there has been no equivocation about our message to you.

For if I hurt your feelings, who is there to cheer me up but the man whose feelings I hurt?

When I went to Troas to preach the good news of the Christ there, I found a good opening for the Lord's work,

but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

If there was splendor in the religion of condemnation, the religion of uprightness must far surpass it in splendor.

Now the Lord here means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

I have to boast. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations given me by the Lord.

and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,