while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

So while death is working in me, life is working in you.

while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.