PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

And if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation, wrought by a patient endurance the same sufferings which we also suffer, and our hope for you is strong; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation,

knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

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

for all the promises of God, the yes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us.

Not that we are lords of your faith, but co-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith.

for I wrote for this purpose, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

that we may not be circumvented by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

for we are a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost,

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

You are our epistle, written by our hearts, known and read by all men,

for you are manifestly an epistle of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of hearts of flesh.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reason out any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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

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

while we look not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are for a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord we persuade men, but are made manifest to God; and I hope also to be made manifest in your consciences.

For if we are beside ourselves it is for God; and if we are sober it is for you.

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

We are embassadors therefore for Christ, as though God besought you by us; we pray you, for Christ, be reconciled to God.

you are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own souls;

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

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

If [any one inquires] respecting Titus, he is my companion and co-laborer for you; if our brothers, they are apostles of churches and the glory of Christ.

for the arms of our warfare are not of flesh, but mighty with God to the pulling down of strongholds,

You see things according to appearances. If any one trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider again with himself that as he is Christ's so also are we.

For the epistles, say they, are weighty and powerful, but the bodily presence is weak and speech contemptible.

Let such a one think, that such as we are in word by epistles when absent, such also will we be in work when present.

For we dare not judge or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

But what I do I also will do, that I may take away an occasion from those who wish an occasion, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we are.

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

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;

Do you again think that we are defending ourselves? We speak in Christ before God; all these things, beloved, are for your edification.

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; and we also are weak in him, but live with him by the power of God in you.

Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves; or know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are reprobates?

But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection.