Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him.

who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.

But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.

Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Now he that has wrought us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

But he who encourages those that are brought low, even God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;

And I give my opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.

But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more diligently zealous through the great confidence he has as to you.

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, when present am mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.

For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows he who is blessed for ever that I do not lie.

I have become a fool; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,