For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not regret, though I did regret: for I perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a time.

Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more we rejoiced at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For to their ability, I bear record, yea, and beyond their ability they were willing of themselves;

That which I speak, I speak it not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Truly the signs of an apostle were done among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare: