Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory;

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not repent -- if even I did repent -- for I perceive that the letter, even if for an hour, did make you sorry.

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

and now also finish doing it, that even as there is the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,

the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us -- to reach even unto you;

for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,

and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.