Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

Wherefore we faint not, but if our outward man is destroyed our inward man is renewed day by day.

if indeed also having put it on we may not be found naked.

lest if the Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to say you, should be ashamed of this confidence.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;