For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

as unknown and yet well known; as at death's door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed;

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.