I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; so taking leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

Therefore having this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not: But have renounced the hidden things of shame,

Therefore we faint not, but even though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

If being clothed, we shall not be found naked.

So that if I had boasted any thing of you to him, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our boasting to Titus is found a truth.

Lest if any of the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) be ashamed of this confident boasting.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,