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

(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.

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

Now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to God, so that you might suffer loss by nothing in us.

I would that you were bearing with me a little in foolishness; but indeed bear with me.

Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miracles and in wonders, and by works of power.

For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.