Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;

you also cooperating in our behalf in prayer; in order that, the gift which is bestowed upon us from many persons, may through many be a source of thanks given in our behalf.

and through you to go unto Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea.

And I wrote this same thing, in order that, having come, I may not have grief over those from whom it behooves me to rejoice; and having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

unto the latter a savour from death unto death; but unto the former a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not as many, corrupting the word of God: but as of purity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the presence of God.

Do we again begin to commend ourselves? or whether have we need of commendatory letters to you or from you, as some do?

not that we are able of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

But we all, with unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle may be taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven:

Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

All things are from God, the one having reconciled us unto himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But as in every thing you abound, in faith, and in word, and knowledge, and in all zeal, and in divine love from you in us, that you may also abound in this philanthropy.

but I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one,

Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

For if I shall wish to glory, I will not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I fear, lest some one may consider with reference to me above what he sees me, or hears from me.

Three times I called on the Lord concerning this, that it may depart from me.

For indeed he was crucified from weakness, but he lives by the power of God: for we indeed are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God unto you.