Now the one who makes us and you as well secure in union with the Messiah and has anointed us is God,

as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and yet as you see very much alive, as punished and yet not killed,

I encouraged Titus to visit you, and I sent along with him the brother you know so well. Titus didn't take advantage of you, did he? We conducted ourselves with the same spirit, didn't we? We took the very same steps, didn't we?