So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord

obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet,

Now finish doing it, so that your readiness to undertake it may be equaled by the way you finish it up, as well as your means permit.

For when somebody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!