who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.

and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.

Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?

For whatever promises of God there are, in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.

But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.

But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;

Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?

and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for ye are the living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.

and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.

For according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they were willing of their own accord,

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

But now also complete the doing of it; so that as there was the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.

For if the readiness be there, a man is accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.

For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

but on the principle of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more diligently zealous through the great confidence he has as to you.

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;

and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God which is upon you.

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.