Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:

Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;

For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you.

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.

If I must boast, I will boast things of my weakness.

Indeed it is not profitable to me to boast. For I will come to visions and Revelation of the Lord.

Of such a one will I boast: and of myself I will not boast, except in my weakness.

For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children.

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare: