Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust, that he will still deliver:

For we write no other things to you, but what ye know and acknowledge, and I trust will acknowledge even to the end.

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

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Now ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean person, saith the Lord, and I will receive you,

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

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

Now therefore compleat the work, that as there was a ready will, so there may be also a performance, in proportion to what ye have.

But we will not boastingly extend ourselves beyond our measure; but according to the measure of the providence, which God hath allotted us, a measure to reach even unto you.

For the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my want; and I have in all things kept myself from being burdensom, and will keep myself.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

Seeing many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

Since I must glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmities.

Surely it is not expedient for me to boast: yet I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such an one I will glory; but I will not glory of myself, unless in my infirmities.

But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may rest upon me.

Forgive me this wrong. Behold the third time I am ready to come to you: yet I will not be burdensom 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 will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare: