Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage

knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Not because we lord over your faith, but are co-workmen of your joy, for by faith ye stand.

For I also wrote for this, so that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

so that we may not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his methods.

Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing:

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?

Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of Lord.

But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace, which has multiplied because of the thankfulness of the many, may abound for the glory of God.

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

For also those who are in the tent groan, being burdened, not in that we want to undress, but to clothe ourselves, so that the mortal may be swallowed up by the life.

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

For whether we are beside ourselves to God, or we are of normal mind, it is for you.

And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.

We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Ye are not limited in us, but ye are limited in your bowels.

And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.

I speak not for condemnation, for I have said before that ye are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

And his bowels are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds,

Do ye look at things according to appearance. If any man has convinced himself to be of Christ, let him consider this again of himself, that, as he is of Christ, so also are we of Christ.

Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained.

Let such a man think this, that such kind we are in word by letters when absent, we are also such kind when present in the work.

For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too.

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

that he was caught up into the paradise, and heard inexpressible sayings that are not permitted for a man to utter.

Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something.

But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing.

For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, your full qualification.