indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took you in by deceit.

I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take any advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit and walk in the same steps?