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

For we do not write to you of other things, but of what you read and acknowledge; and I hope you will also acknowledge to the end,

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,

For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

For if that which has passed away was with glory, much more will that which continues be in glory.

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

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

Let such a one think, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also will we be in work when present.

But we will not boast of things not measured, but according to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come even to you.

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.

It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Since many boast of the flesh, I also will boast.

If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my infirmities.

It is not expedient therefore for me to boast [of these things]; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such a one will I boast, but of myself I will not boast except of my infirmities.

For if I shall wish to boast I shall not be foolish, for I will tell the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me beyond what he sees or hears of me.

Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.

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;

But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.