who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

for if I cause you grief, who is there to cause me joy except those whom I have grieved?

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

As to him who has been, and now is, causing pain, it is not I whom he has pained, but all of you??t least some of you (not to overstate the case).

But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

I do not do as Moses did, who used to cover his face with a veil to keep the children of Israel from beholding the passing of a fading glory.

But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ.

For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence.

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

even as it is written, He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little did not lack.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

As for Titus, remember that he is a partner of mine, and is also my associate in labors for you. As for the other brothers, remember that they are delegates from the churches, men in whom Christ is glorified.

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

He who ever supplies seed to the sower, and bread for the food of man, will supply and make plentous your seed, and increase the harvest springing up from your almsgiving.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

Meanwhile. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me.

I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation?

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth.

I know a Christian man who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not. God knows), was caught up??his man of whom I speak??ven into the third heaven.

who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

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

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

I have said formerly, and I now forewarn you as when I was present the second time, so now when I am absent the second time, so now when I am absent, saying to those who had sinned before, and to all the rest, "If I come again, I will not spare,"

Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you.