And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

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

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

Wherefore, though I wrote to you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up before hand your bounty, of which ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

For if he that cometh preacheth 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.

Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God without reward?

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.