Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do:

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

I say it not to condemn you : for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us,'see that ye abound in this grace also.

But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness:

lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

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

Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,

so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and'so will I keep myself .

I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if ye do , yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person)-- they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:

but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

See with how large letters I write unto you with mine own hand.

unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

having abolished in the flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man,'so making peace;

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

But ye did not so learn Christ;

if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife'see that she fear her husband.

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always,'so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child'serveth a father,'so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample.

Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

All the saints salute you, especially they that are of Caesar's household.

and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say , whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.

if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord,'so walk in him,

And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say , did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.