Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; then acknowledge such ones.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

even as you have recognized us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit,

And I call God as witness to my soul that in order to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.

And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

And we have such trust through Christ toward God,

Then since we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

Therefore since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;

For we, having the same spirit of faith (according as it is written, "I believed, and therefore I have spoken"); we also believed and therefore speak,

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have it to answer those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.

So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?

And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?

And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

I do not speak this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts for us to die together, and to live together.

My boldness of speech is great toward you; my glorying on your behalf is much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.

Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort, and we rather rejoiced more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth.

Therefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

But now also finish the doing of it, so that, as there was a readiness to will, so also the finishing, giving out of what you have.

For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what one does not have.

For it is not that others may have ease, but you trouble;

as it is written, "He gathering much, he had nothing left over; and he gathering little did not have less."

And we have sent with him the brothers whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which I have in you.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

For if, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .

For I judge myself to have come behind the highest apostles in nothing.

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in every way I have been clearly revealed to you in all things.

And being present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone. For the brothers from Macedonia made up completely my need. And in every way I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will keep myself.

I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.

I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.

By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?

lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.

For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth.

As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.

But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;

But on the contrary, seeing that I have been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter to the circumcision;

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain.

Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you. You have not injured me at all.

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me.

I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will think nothing else, but that he troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But let each one prove his own work, and then he alone will have a boast in himself, and not in another.

So then as we have time, let us work good toward all, especially toward those of the household of faith.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,

in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you,

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.

For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But you have not so learned Christ,

if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.

even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.

holding forth the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice with you in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.

For I have no one who is like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;

though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ

My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,

Yet, as to what we have already attained, let us walk in the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us for a pattern.

(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ;

Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.

Not that I speak according to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which you sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have to all the saints,

in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins.

if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the body, but are not of any value for the satisfying of the flesh.

Masters, give to your slaves what is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.

praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.

So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by your own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;