For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.

But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

Such confidence I have through Christ before God.

And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

And I am sending with him that brother whose fame in the service of the gospel is spread through all the churches.

but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket, and so escaped and out of his hands.

Did I make gain of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.