as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,