For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus was not yea and nay; but was yea in him.

For all the promises of God are yea in him, and amen in him, to the glory of God by us.

So that on the contrary ye should rather forgive and comfort him, lest such an one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

I beseech you therefore to confirm your love toward him.

Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.

And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

So that we from this time know no one after the flesh; yea, if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For he hath made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him.

So that if I had boasted any thing of you to him, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our boasting to Titus is found a truth.

And his tender affection is more abundant toward you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is through all the churches: (And not only so,

Do ye look at the outward appearance of things? If any man be confident, that he is Christ's, let him again think this of himself, that as he is Christ's, so we also are Christ's.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

If indeed he that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another Spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps?

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: and we also are weak with him; but we shall live with him, by the power of God in you.