For we do not write to you of other things, but of what you read and acknowledge; and I hope you will also acknowledge to the end,

Wishing this therefore, did I use lightness? or what I wish do I wish according to the flesh, that with me there may be the yes, yes, and the no, no?

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the body for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?

and what agreement has Christ with Beliar, or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

For behold, this same thing, that you grieved in a godly manner, how great diligence it produced in you, what a defense, what indignation, what fear, what desire, what zeal, what a punishment! In every thing you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

For if there is a willing mind, a man is acceptable according to what he has, and not according to what he has not.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

What I say, I do not say according to the Lord, but as it were in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

For if I shall wish to boast I shall not be foolish, for I will tell the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me beyond what he sees or hears of me.

For what is there in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.