But if anyone has hurt anybody's feelings, it is not so much mine, as yours, or at least those of some of you, not to be too hard upon you all.

Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

And I shall go on doing as I do, so as to cut the ground from under those who want to make out that in their boasted apostleship they work on the same terms that I do.

Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody??3 since you demand proof that Christ really speaks through me. He is not weak in dealing with you. On the contrary, right among you he exhibits his power.