For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

and all things are of the God who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given to us the ministry of that reconciliation:

(for he says, I have listened to thee in an accepted time, and I have helped thee in a day of salvation: behold, now is the well-accepted time; behold, now the day of salvation:)

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;

as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for ye are the living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.

Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and I will receive you;

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Great is my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.

For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth;

and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.

but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;

and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

Now we will not boast out of measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, to reach to you also.

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.

But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast.

Besides those things that are without, the crowd of cares pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.