I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

and such trust we have through the Christ toward God,

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have something in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

so that if any one is in Christ -- he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

not to condemn you do I say it, for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth,

I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

and now also finish doing it, that even as there is the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,

for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed am humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

and I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

and I have known such a man -- whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

any one of those whom I have sent unto you -- by him did I take advantage of you?

I have said before, and I say it before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!

and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

but, on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of the uncircumcision, as Peter with that of the circumcision,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

the law, then, is against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

Ye see in how large letters I have written to you with my own hand;

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.

in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,

For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,

and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;

and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you -- an odour of a sweet smell -- a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

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

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;

and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,

because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known it;

And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also to see you,

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

for yourselves have known how it behoveth you to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;