This punishment by the majority is enough for such a one;

so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overwhelming sorrow.

And we have such trust through Christ toward God,

Then since we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

For all things are for your sake, so that the superabounding grace might be made to abound through the thanksgiving of the greater number, to the glory of God.

Then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.

Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters, being absent, such we will be also in deed when we are present.

For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in the body, I do not know; or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows) such a one was caught up to the third Heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows),

I will glory of such a one, yet I will not boast on my behalf, except in my weaknesses.

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me (who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you;