And in this confidence I was purposing before to come to you, that ye might have a second favor;

and through you to go into Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judaea.

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

Now, having come to Troas for the Gospel of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

Wherefore, "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate," saith the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you;

Lest by any means, if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

It is needful for me to glory, though, indeed, not profitable; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

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;

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as if present at the second time, and, being now absent, I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest; that, if I come again, I will not spare;