for we are a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost,

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

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.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts both to die and live together.

for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed, but as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you to Titus was truth.

But I sent the brothers, that our boasting of you may not be in vain in this respect, as I said you were prepared,

And may he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating multiply your grain, and increase the products of your righteousness;

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.

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;