Because of this act of ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to the gospel of Christ which you confess, as well as for your generous participation [in this gift] for them and for all [the other believers in need],

But I am afraid that just as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts will be led astray from their single-hearted fidelity to Christ.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

But the God who comforts the down-hearted comforted me by the coming of Titus,

Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

For all this is for your sakes, that the loving-kindness of God, spreading from heart to heart, may cause yet more hearts to overflow with thanksgiving, to his glory.