If it is I who cause you pain, why, who is there to cheer me, except the very person whom I am paining?

When I went to the district round Troas to tell the Good News of the Christ, even though there was an opening for serving the Master,

I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my Brother; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia.

For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!

And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

There is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us.

Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?

What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? or what can those who accept the Faith have in common with those who reject it?

Ever since we reached Macedonia, we have had no rest in body or mind; on every side there have been troubles--conflicts without, anxieties within.

For, where there is willingness, a man's gift is valued by its comparison with what he has, and not with what he has not.

And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches.

And that will be the proof, which you are looking for, that the Christ speaks through me. There is no weakness in his dealings with you. No, he shows his power among you.