There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but there is one glory of the celestial, and another of the terrestrial.

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the animal; and afterwards the spiritual.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor doth what is corruptible inherit incorruption.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed in a moment,

but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I shall stay at Ephesus till Pentecost. For a great and effectual door is opened to me,

Let no one therefore despise him: but forward him on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren. As to our brother Apollos,

I much importuned him to come to you with the brethren: but he was not at all willing to come now; though he will come when he has a favorable opportunity.

but we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and pious sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and especially towards you.

For we write no other things to you, but what ye own and acknowledge, and I hope ye will always acknowledge.

But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.

but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us:

but He that establisheth us as well as you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us,

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:

not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief:

for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me?

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

yet I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother there; but taking my leave of them, I went away into Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and spreadeth the odor of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are not like many who adulterate the word of God: but as with sincerity, but as from God, and in the sight of God, we speak concerning Christ.

being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.

not that we can of ourselves reckon upon any thing as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God.

Who hath also fitted us to be ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

But to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.

But we all with unveiled face beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, as proceeding from the Spirit of the Lord.

but have rejected shameful disguises, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, recommending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

for we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for the sake of Jesus.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power might be evidently of God, and not of us:

being afflicted on every side, but not oppressed; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken;

cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body.

So that death is wrought in us, but life in you.

But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, and therefore have I spoken," we also believe, and therefore speak:

For which cause we are not disheartened: but though our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

For our short and light affliction is working out for us an infinite and eternal weight of glory, as we aim not at the things which are visible, but invisible:

for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but as a tent, were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened; wherefore we desire, not to be wholly unclothed, but to put on immortality, that the mortal part may be swallowed up in life.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but if not, we are manifest unto God, and I hope we are also manifested to your consciences:

for we are not again recommending ourselves to you, but giving you an occasion of glorying on our account; that ye may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in heart.

And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

But all these things are from God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and made us ministers of the reconciliation;

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, but not put to death;

ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

But God, who comforteth those that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus:

and not only by his coming, but especially by the consolation wherewith he was comforted on your account, acquainting us with your earnest desire towards us, your grief, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced greatly.

For though I grieved you by my letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that epistle grieved you, though it was but for a little while.

However, now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were grieved after a godly manner, so that ye received no damage from us.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Wherefore if I wrote in such a manner to you, it was not merely on his account who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had been injured; but that our care for you in the sight of God might be manifested among you.

and because if I boasted of any thing to him concerning you, I was not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so likewise our boasting of you to Titus was truth.

And this they did not merely as we hoped, but first gave themselves unto the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

I speak not by way of command, but to prove the sincerity of your love also, by means of the forwardness of others.

And herein I give my opinion: for this is to your advantage, who not only began to act, but also to be forward to it above a year ago.

but by an equality, that your abundance may at this time be a supply to their want; and their abundance may be the like to your want, if need be: that there may be an equality:

But thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus:

for he not only complied with the exhortation, but being more forward he went to you of his own accord.

(and not only so, but he was also chosen by the churches to accompany us with this grace, which is administered by us for the glory of the same Lord, and to shew your readiness of mind:)

looking to things that are right not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you might not become vain in this respect, but that ye might be ready, as I had said:

But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

For the ministration of this service not only supplieth the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also, through many thanksgivings, to the glory of God.

but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the demolishing of bulwarks:)

for his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

But let such a one know this, that as we are in word by letters, when absent, such also shall we be in fact when present.

For we presume not to number, or compare ourselves with some who recommend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are void of understanding.

But we will not glory of things beyond our bounds, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath given to us, a measure to come even unto you.

Not boasting of things beyond our limits in other men's labors; but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be abundantly enlarged by you according to our line,

But let him, that glorieth, glory in the Lord.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth.

But I fear least as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the purity that is in Christ.

yet not in knowledge ---but we have been fully manifested among you in all things.

God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those that desire an occasion of boasting or censure, that in what they boast of they may be found to do even as we do.

I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.

What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.

I speak of their reproaches, as if we were weak: but whereinsoever any one may be confident (though I speak foolishly) I may be confident too.

To boast indeed does not become me: but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, unless in my infirmities.

For though I should incline to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I should speak truth. But I forbear least any one should think of me above what he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your substance, but your selves. For children are not expected to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful among you.

For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you.

But I hope ye will soon know that we are not disapproved.

I pray to God that ye may do no evil: and not that we may appear to be approved by your punishment, but that ye may do that which is good, though we should seem to be disapproved.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Paul an apostle (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

but there be some that disturb you, and would subvert the gospel of Christ.

But tho' we or an angel from heaven should preach to you any other gospel than what we have preached to you; let him be accursed.

But I assure you, brethren, that the gospel preached by me is not of human invention.

For I neither received it, nor was taught it by man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,)

nor went I up to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before me, but I departed into Arabia, and afterwards returned again to Damascus.