For the love of Christ is constraining us; having judged this, that One died for all; consequently, they all died:

Wherefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, they have become new.

And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

For, according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord;

and they did this not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God;

Whether any one inquires about Titus, he is my partner, and my fellow-worker in your behalf; or our brethren, they are the messengers of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness.

they also, with supplication for you, longing after you on account of the exceeding grace of God upon you.

For we are not bold to judge ourselves among, or to compare ourselves with, some of those who commend themselves; but they measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

But what I am doing, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion from those desiring occasion, that wherein they glory they may be found even as we.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of those who have heretofore sinned, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication and lasciviousness which they practiced.