I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be'strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;