O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.

I pray you, therefore, in fair exchange (I speak as to my children), let your hearts also be wide open to me.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.

Well, when I reached Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, though I had a wide opportunity in the Lord,

Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

On frequent journeys, I faced
dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers,
dangers from my own people,
dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city,
dangers in the open country,
dangers on the sea,
and dangers among false brothers;

Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.