I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went from there into Macedonia.

Therefore since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint.

For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

I say this lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;