Sufficient for such a one was the punishment inflicted by the many;

so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

And such confidence have we through Christ toward God:

Having, therefore, such hope, we use great boldness of speech;

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

For we who live are always delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word through letters, when absent; such also are we in deed, when present.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ;

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not, God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the Third Heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not, God knoweth),

On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.

Wherefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then am I powerful.

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

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

since ye seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, Who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you;