For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches;

you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.

For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God.

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

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

Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?