My hope for you is well founded; because I know that just as you, brothers, are sharers of my sufferings, so you will be sharers of my comfort too.

But it is God who makes us as well as you secure through union with Christ, and has anointed us,

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you ground for speaking well of me, that you may have something to say to those who are constantly prating about external privileges and not concerned about the state of the heart.

obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death,

I am sending with him the well-known brother whose praise for spreading the good news is ringing through all the churches.

I actually begged Titus to go, and sent the well-known brother with him. Titus did not make any money out of you, did he? Did not he and I act in the same spirit, and take the very same steps?