PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,

For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but was yes in him;

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

for if I grieve you, who is he that gladdens me, but he that is grieved by me?

And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

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,

But thanks be to God, who always triumphs over us in Christ and reveals the odor of his knowledge by us in every place;

in one an odor of death to death, and in the other an odor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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

And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit.

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.

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

For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

but God who comforts the humble comforted us by the coming of Titus;

And in this case I give an opinion; for this is expedient for you, who began before to act in this matter and to act willingly a year ago.

But thanks be to God, who put this care for you into the heart of Titus,

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

I PAUL also exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you;

and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For we dare not judge or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

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

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

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.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I lie not.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

since you seek a proof in me of Christ speaking, who is not weak to you but powerful in you;