Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God.

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.