But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

For the light burden of our affliction, which is evanescent, is working out for us an eternal weight of glory according to hyperbole unto hyperbole;

But working together we indeed intreat you not to have received the grace of God in vain:

Then it is no great wonder if his ministers are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose, end shall be according to their works.

And no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

For indeed the signs of the apostleship are wrought in me in all patience, in miracles and in wonders and in dynamites.