But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

And so then although I wrote to you, it was not because of the man who did wrong, nor because of the man who was wronged, but in order to reveal to you your eagerness for us in the sight of God.

as it is written, he of much did not abound, and he of little did not lack.

For indeed if a man who comes, preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or ye receive another spirit that ye did not receive, or another good-news that ye did not accept, ye well tolerated it.

Or did I commit a sin lowering myself so that ye might be lifted up, because I preached to you the good-news of God freely?

But let it be. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being clever, I caught you with bait.

Any man of whom I have sent to you, did I exploit you through him?

I encouraged Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in anything? Did we not walk in the same spirit, not in the same steps?

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.