in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss;

being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

I robbed other churches, having received support for your ministry, and being present with you and being destitute, I burdened no one;

Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.