2CO 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our *3972 *0652 *2424 *5547 *2307 *2316 *5095 brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the *0080 *1577 *2316 *3588 *1722 *2882 *3956 saints which are in all Achaia: *0040 *3588 *3650 *0882 2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus *5485 *1515 *2316 *3962 *2962 *2424 Christ. *5547 3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of *2128 *2316 *2532 *3962 *2962 *2424 *5547 *3962 mercies, and the God of all comfort; *3628 *2316 *3650 *3874 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to *3588 *3870 *3650 *2347 *1410 comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we *3870 *3956 *2347 *3874 *3739 ourselves are comforted of God. *3870 *2316 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also *3804 *5547 *4052 *3779 *3874 *2532 aboundeth by Christ. *4052 *5547 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, *1535 *2346 *5216 *3874 *4991 which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also *3588 *1754 *5281 *0846 *3804 *3588 *2532 suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and *3958 *1535 *1535 *3870 *5216 *3874 salvation. *4991 7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the *1680 *0949 *1492 *2844 sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. *3804 *3779 *2532 *3874 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came *2309 *0080 *0050 *2347 *3588 *1096 to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, *0773 *0916 *5236 *5228 *1411 insomuch that we despaired even of life: *5620 *1820 *2532 *2198 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust *2192 *0610 *2288 *1438 *3982 in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: *1438 *2316 *3588 *1453 *3498 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we *4506 *5082 *5082 *2288 *4506 *3739 trust that he will yet deliver us; *1679 *2089 *4506 11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed *2532 *4943 *4943 *1162 *5486 upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our *4183 *4383 *2168 *4183 *5228 behalf. *5228 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in *2746 *3778 *3142 *4893 simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace *0572 *2316 *1505 *4559 *4678 *5485 of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to *2316 *0390 *2889 *4056 *4056 you-ward. *5209 13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or *1125 *3756 *0243 *3739 *0314 *2228 acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; *1921 *1679 *1921 *2532 *5056 14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, *2532 *1922 *3313 *5216 *2745 even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. *2509 *2532 *2257 *2250 *2962 *2424 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye *5026 *4006 *1014 *2064 *4386 might have a second benefit; *2192 *1208 *5485 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia *1330 *1519 *3109 *2064 *3825 *3109 unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. *4311 *4311 *1519 *2449 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things *3767 *5124 *1011 *5530 *1644 *2228 that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there *1011 *1011 *2596 *4561 should be yea yea, and nay nay? *3483 *3483 *3756 *3756 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. *2316 *4103 *3056 *4314 *3483 *3756 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, *5207 *2316 *2424 *5547 *3588 *2784 *1722 even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was *4610 *5095 *3483 *3756 yea. *3483 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the *3745 *1860 *2316 *3483 *0281 glory of God by us. *1391 *2316 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, *1161 *0950 *5547 *5548 is God; *2316 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our *3588 *2532 *4972 *1325 *0728 *4151 hearts. *2588 23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came *1161 *1941 *2316 *3144 *5590 *5339 *2064 not as yet unto Corinth. *3765 *2882 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your *2961 *5216 *4102 *4904 *5216 joy: for by faith ye stand. *5479 *4102 *2476 2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in *2919 *5124 *1683 *2064 *3825 heaviness. *3077 2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the *1487 *3076 *3076 *5101 *2532 *2165 *2165 same which is made sorry by me? *3076 *3076 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow *1125 *5124 *0846 *3361 *2064 *2192 *3077 from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my *3739 *1163 *5463 *3982 *3956 joy is the joy of you all. *5479 *3956 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with *4183 *2347 *4928 *2588 *1125 many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love *4183 *1144 *3076 *1097 *0026 which I have more abundantly unto you. *3739 *2192 *4056 *4056 5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: *1487 *5100 *3076 *3076 *3076 *3313 that I may not overcharge you all. *1912 *3956 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. *2425 *5108 *3778 *2009 *3588 *4119 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, *5620 *5121 *3123 *5483 *3870 lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. *3381 *3381 *5108 *2666 *4055 *3077 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. *1352 *3870 *2964 *0026 *1519 9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, *5124 *2532 *1125 *1097 *1382 whether ye be obedient in all things. *1487 *5255 *3956 10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any *3739 *5483 *5100 *5483 *2532 *1487 *5483 *1536 thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of *3739 *5483 *5209 *4383 Christ; *5547 11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of *3361 *4567 *4122 *4122 *0050 his devices. *3540 12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door *1161 *2064 *5174 *5547 *2098 *2374 was opened unto me of the Lord, *0455 *2962 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but *2192 *3756 *0425 *4151 *2147 *5103 *0080 taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. *0657 *1831 *1519 *3109 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, *1161 *5485 *2316 *3842 *2358 *2358 *5547 and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. *5319 *5319 *3744 *1108 *3956 *5117 15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, *2316 *2175 *2175 *5547 *4982 and in them that perish: *0622 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the *3303 *3744 *2288 *2288 *3739 savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? *3744 *2222 *2222 *5101 *2425 *5023 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of *4183 *2585 *3056 *2316 sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. *1505 *2316 *2714 *2316 *2980 *5547 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, *0756 *3825 *4921 *1438 *3361 *5535 *5100 epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? *1992 *4956 *2228 *4956 2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: *1992 *1449 *2588 *1097 *0314 *3956 *0444 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ *5319 *5319 *1992 *5547 ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living *1247 *1449 *3188 *4151 *2198 God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. *2316 *4109 *3035 *4560 *4109 *2588 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: *5108 *4006 *2192 *1223 *5547 *2316 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of *2425 *1438 *3049 *5100 ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; *1438 *2426 *2316 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the *3739 *2532 *2427 *2427 *1249 *2537 *1242 letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth *1121 *4151 *1121 *0615 *4151 life. *2227 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was *1487 *1248 *2288 *1121 *1795 *3037 glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the *1391 *5620 *5207 *2474 *1410 *0816 *0816 face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done *4383 *3475 *1391 *4383 *3588 *1391 *2763 away: *2673 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? *4459 *1248 *4151 *3123 *1391 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the *1487 *1248 *2633 *1391 *4183 *3123 ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. *1248 *1343 *4052 *1391 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by *2532 *1392 *1392 *3761 *1392 *5129 *3313 reason of the glory that excelleth. *1752 *1391 *5235 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which *1487 *2763 *2673 *1391 *4183 *3123 remaineth is glorious. *3306 *1391 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: *3767 *2192 *5108 *1680 *5530 *4183 *3954 13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of *3475 *5087 *2571 *1909 *4383 *5207 Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: *2474 *0816 *0816 *5056 *2673 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same *3540 *4456 *0891 *4594 *4594 *3306 *0846 vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done *2571 *0343 *0343 *0320 *3820 *1242 *3748 *2763 away in Christ. *2673 *5547 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. *2193 *4594 *4594 *2259 *3475 *0314 *2571 *2588 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken *1161 *2259 *1994 *2962 *2571 *4014 away. *4014 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there *1161 *2962 *4151 *3757 *4151 *2962 *1563 is liberty. *1657 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, *3956 *0343 *4383 *2734 *2734 *1391 *2962 are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit *3339 *0846 *1504 *1391 *1391 *4151 of the LORD. *2962 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we *5124 *2192 *5026 *1248 *1653 *1653 faint not; *1573 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in *0550 *2927 *0152 *4043 craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by *3834 *3366 *1389 *3056 *2316 *1389 manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience *5321 *0225 *4921 *1438 *3956 *0444 *4893 in the sight of God. *1799 *2316 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: *1499 *2098 *2572 *2572 *0622 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which *3739 *2316 *5127 *0165 *5186 *3540 believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the *0571 *3361 *5462 *1391 *2098 *5547 *3739 image of God, should shine unto them. *1504 *2316 *0826 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves *2784 *1438 *5547 *2424 *2962 *1438 your servants for Jesus' sake. *5216 *1401 *2424 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined *2316 *3588 *2036 *5457 *2989 *4655 *2989 in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in *2588 *5462 *1108 *1391 *2316 the face of Jesus Christ. *4383 *2424 *5547 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the *2192 *5126 *2344 *3749 *4632 *5236 power may be of God, and not of us. *1411 *2316 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, *2346 *1722 *3956 *0235 *4729 *0639 but not in despair; *1820 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; *1377 *1459 *2598 *2598 *0622 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the *3842 *4064 *4064 *4983 *3500 *2962 *2424 life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. *2222 *2532 *2424 *5319 *5319 *4983 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that *3588 *2198 *0104 *3860 *2288 *2424 the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. *2222 *2532 *2424 *5319 *5319 *2349 *4561 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. *5620 *3303 *2288 *1754 *2222 13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I *2192 *0846 *4151 *4102 *2596 *1125 believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; *4100 *1352 *2980 *2532 *4100 *1352 *2980 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by *1492 *1453 *2962 *2424 *1453 *2532 Jesus, and shall present us with you. *2424 *3936 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might *3956 *5209 *4121 *5485 through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. *1223 *2169 *4119 *4052 *1391 *2316 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet *1352 *1352 *1573 *1499 *1854 *0444 *1311 *0235 the inward man is renewed day by day. *2081 *0341 *2250 *2250 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a *1645 *2347 *3588 *3910 *2716 far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; *5236 *5236 *5236 *0166 *0922 *1391 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things *4648 *4648 *0991 *4648 which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the *0991 *0991 *4340 things which are not seen are eternal. *0991 *0166 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were *1492 *1437 *1919 *3614 *3588 *4636 dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal *2647 *2192 *3619 *2316 *3614 *0886 *0886 *0166 in the heavens. *3772 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our *5129 *4727 *1971 *1971 *1902 house which is from heaven: *3613 *3588 *3772 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. *1489 *1746 *2147 *1131 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that *3588 *4636 *4727 *0916 we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed *2309 *1562 *1902 *2349 *2666 up of life. *2222 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also *1161 *2716 *5124 *2316 *3588 *2532 hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. *1325 *0728 *4151 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home *3767 *3842 *2292 *1492 *1722 *1736 in the body, we are absent from the Lord: *4983 *0553 *2962 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) *4043 *4102 *1491 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, *2292 *2106 *3123 *0553 *4983 and to be present with the Lord. *1736 *2962 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be *1352 *5389 *1535 *1736 *1535 *0553 accepted of him. *2101 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every *1163 *3956 *5319 *1715 *0968 *0968 *5547 *1538 one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, *2865 *4983 *4314 *4238 whether it be good or bad. *1535 *0018 *1535 *2556 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are *1492 *3767 *5401 *2962 *3982 *0444 made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your *5319 *5319 *2316 *1679 *2532 *5319 *5319 *5216 consciences. *4893 12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to *4921 *1438 *3825 *1325 *0874 glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory *2745 *5228 *5228 *2192 *2744 in appearance, and not in heart. *4383 *2588 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be *1535 *1839 *2316 *1535 *1535 sober, it is for your cause. *4993 *5213 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if *0026 *5547 *4912 *5124 *2919 *1487 one died for all, then were all dead: *1520 *0599 *3956 *0686 *3956 *0599 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth *0599 *3956 *2198 *3371 live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. *2198 *1438 *0599 *1453 *1453 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we *5620 *3568 *1492 *3762 *3762 *2596 *4561 *1161 *1499 have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. *1097 *5547 *2596 *4561 *0235 *3568 *2089 *1097 *3765 *2089 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things *5620 *1487 *1536 *5547 *2537 *2937 *0744 are passed away; behold, all things are become new. *3028 *2400 *3956 *1096 *2537 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus *3956 *2316 *3588 *2644 *1438 *2424 Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; *5547 *1325 *1248 *2643 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not *5613 *2316 *5547 *2644 *2889 *1438 imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of *3049 *3900 *5087 *3056 reconciliation. *2643 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you *4243 *5547 *2316 *3870 by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. *1189 *5547 *5228 *2644 *2316 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might *4160 *0266 *1097 *3361 *0266 be made the righteousness of God in him. *1096 *1343 *2316 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive *3767 *4903 *4903 *3870 *2532 *1209 not the grace of God in vain. *5485 *2316 *2756 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of *3004 *1873 *2540 *1184 *2250 salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, *4991 *0997 *2400 *3568 *2144 *2540 *2400 now is the day of salvation.) *3568 *2250 *4991 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: *1325 *3367 *4349 *3367 *1248 *3469 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much *3956 *4921 *1438 *1249 *2316 *4183 patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, *5281 *2347 *0318 *4730 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in *4127 *5438 *0181 *2873 *0070 fastings; *3521 6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy *0054 *1108 *5544 *0040 Ghost, by love unfeigned, *4151 *0026 *0505 7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness *3056 *0225 *1411 *2316 *3696 *1343 on the right hand and on the left, *1188 *0710 8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, *1391 *0819 *1426 *1426 *2162 *2162 *4108 and yet true; *0557 9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as *0050 *1921 *1921 *0599 *2400 *2198 chastened, and not killed; *3811 *2289 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as *3076 *1161 *0104 *5463 *4434 *1161 *4148 *4183 *4148 having nothing, and yet possessing all things. *2192 *3367 *2722 *3956 11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. *2881 *4750 *0455 *2588 *4115 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. *4730 *4730 *5216 *4698 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye *1161 *0489 *0846 *3004 *5043 also enlarged. *2532 *4115 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship *2086 *2086 *2086 *0571 *5101 *3352 hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with *1343 *0458 *5101 *2842 *5457 darkness? *4655 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that *5101 *4857 *5547 *0955 *2228 *5101 *3310 believeth with an infidel? *4103 *0571 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the *5101 *4783 *3845 *2316 *1497 temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk *3845 *2198 *2316 *2316 *2036 *1774 *1704 in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. *2316 *2992 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, *1352 *1831 *3319 *0873 *3004 *2962 and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. *0680 *0169 *1523 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, *3962 *5207 *2364 saith the Lord Almighty. *3004 *2962 *3841 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse *2192 *3767 *5025 *1860 *0027 *2511 ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness *1438 *3956 *3436 *4561 *4151 *2005 *0042 in the fear of God. *5401 *2316 2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have *5562 *0091 *3762 *3762 *5351 *3762 *3762 defrauded no man. *4122 *3762 *3762 3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in *3004 *2633 *4280 *4280 our hearts to die and live with you. *2588 *4880 *4800 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I *4183 *3954 *4314 *4183 *2746 am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. *4137 *3874 *5248 *5479 *3956 *2347 5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we *2064 *1519 *3109 *4561 *2192 *3762 *0425 were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. *2346 *1722 *3956 *1855 *3163 *2081 *5401 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us *0235 *2316 *3870 *3588 *5011 *5011 *3870 by the coming of Titus; *3952 *5103 7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was *3952 *3440 *3874 *3739 comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your *3870 *0312 *5216 *1972 *1972 *5216 *3602 *5216 fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. *2205 *5228 *5620 *5463 *3123 8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did *1499 *3076 *3076 *1992 *3338 *1499 repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it *3338 *0991 *1565 *1992 *3076 *3076 *1499 were but for a season. *5610 9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to *3568 *5463 *3076 *3076 *3076 repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might *3341 *3076 *3076 *2596 *2316 receive damage by us in nothing. *2210 *2210 *3367 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: *2316 *3077 *2716 *3341 *4991 *0278 but the sorrow of the world worketh death. *3077 *2889 *2716 *2288 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, *2400 *5124 *0846 *3076 *2596 *2316 what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, *4214 *4710 *2716 *0235 *0627 *0235 what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, *0024 *0235 *5401 *0235 *1972 *1972 *0235 *2205 yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear *0235 *1557 *3956 *4921 *1438 *0053 in this matter. *3588 *4229 12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had *0686 *1499 *1125 *1752 done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care *0091 *0091 *3761 *1752 *0091 *4710 for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. *1799 *2316 *5319 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the *5124 *3870 *5213 *3874 *4056 more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by *3123 *5463 *5479 *5103 *3754 *4151 *0373 you all. *3956 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but *1487 *2744 *1536 *2617 as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I *0980 *3956 *0225 *2532 *3779 *2746 *3588 made before Titus, is found a truth. *1909 *5103 *1096 *0225 15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he *4698 *4698 *4056 *4056 *1519 remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye *0363 *5218 *3956 *5613 *5401 *5156 received him. *1209 16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things. *5463 *2292 *3956 8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on *1161 *0080 *1107 *1107 *5485 *2316 *1325 *1722 the churches of Macedonia; *1577 *3109 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and *4183 *1382 *2347 *4050 *5479 their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. *0899 *4432 *4052 *4149 *0572 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were *1411 *3140 *3140 *5228 *1411 willing of themselves; *0830 *0830 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take *1189 *4183 *3874 *1209 *5485 upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. *2842 *1248 *0040 5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to *1679 *4412 *1325 *1438 the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. *2962 *2307 *2316 6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also *1519 *3870 *5103 *4278 *3779 *2532 finish in you the same grace also. *2005 *0846 *5485 *2532 7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and *0235 *4052 *0376 *4102 *3056 knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye *1108 *3956 *4710 *5209 *0026 abound in this grace also. *4052 *5124 *5485 *2532 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, *3004 *2003 *1223 *4710 *2087 and to prove the sincerity of your love. *1381 *1103 *5212 *0026 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, *1097 *5485 *2962 *2424 *5547 *4146 yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be *5216 *4433 *4433 *4432 rich. *4147 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have *5129 *1325 *1106 *5124 *4851 *3748 begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. *4278 *4278 *3440 *4160 *2532 *2309 *4070 *0575 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to *3570 *2532 *2005 *4160 *4288 will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. *2309 *3779 *2005 *2532 *2192 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a *4295 *4288 *4288 *2144 *2526 man hath, and not according to that he hath not. *5100 *2192 *2526 *2192 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: *0243 *0425 *2347 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a *2471 *3568 *1722 *3568 *2540 *5216 *4051 supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your *5303 *4051 *2532 *5216 want: that there may be equality: *5303 *2471 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he *1125 *4183 *3756 *4121 that had gathered little had no lack. *3641 *3756 *1641 16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of *5485 *2316 *3588 *1325 *0846 *4710 *4710 *1722 *2588 Titus for you. *5103 17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his *3303 *1209 *3874 *5225 *4707 *4707 own accord he went unto you. *0830 *0830 *1831 18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel *4842 *0080 *3739 *1868 *2098 throughout all the churches; *1223 *3956 *1577 19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel *3440 *2532 *5500 *1577 *4898 with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the *5124 *5485 *3588 *1247 *1392 same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind: *3778 *2962 *5216 *4288 *4288 20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is *4724 *5124 *3361 *5100 *3469 *5026 *0100 *3588 administered by us: *1247 21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also *4306 *2570 *3440 *1799 *2962 *2532 in the sight of men. *1799 *0444 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved *4842 *0080 *3739 *4178 *1381 diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great *4705 *4183 *3570 *4183 *4707 *4705 *4183 confidence which I have in you. *4006 *3588 23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper *1535 *5103 *2844 *4904 concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers *1519 *1535 *0080 *0652 of the churches, and the glory of Christ. *1577 *1392 *5547 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your *3767 *1731 *4383 *1577 *1732 *5216 love, and of our boasting on your behalf. *0026 *2746 *5228 *5216 *5228 9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me *4012 *1248 *0040 *4053 to write to you: *1125 2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them *1492 *4288 *5216 *4288 *3739 *2744 of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked *3110 *0882 *3903 *4070 *0575 *5216 *2205 *2042 very many. *4119 *4119 3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain *1161 *3992 *0080 *3361 *2745 *2788 in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: *5129 *3313 *3004 *3903 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, *3381 *3381 *1437 *3110 *2064 *2147 *0532 we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. *3004 *2617 *3588 *5026 *5287 *2746 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would *3767 *2233 *0316 *3870 *0080 go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had *4281 *4281 *4294 *4294 *5216 *2129 notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not *4293 *4293 *5026 *2092 *2129 as of covetousness. *4124 6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and *5124 *4687 *5340 *2325 *2532 *5340 he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. *4687 *2129 *2325 *2532 *2129 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not *1538 *2531 *4255 *2588 grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. *3077 *2228 *0318 *2316 *0025 *2431 *1395 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always *2316 *1415 *4052 *3956 *5485 *4052 *1519 *3842 having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: *2192 *3956 *0841 *3956 *4052 *3956 *0018 *2041 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: *1125 *4650 *4650 *1325 *3993 his righteousness remaineth for ever. *1343 *3306 *0165 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your *1161 *2023 *4690 *4687 *2532 *5524 *0740 food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your *1035 *4129 *5216 *4703 *0837 *1081 *5216 righteousness;) *1343 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth *4148 *3956 *3956 *0572 *3748 *2716 through us thanksgiving to God. *1223 *2169 *2316 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of *1248 *5026 *3009 *3440 *4322 *5303 the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; *0040 *4052 *2532 *4183 *2169 *2316 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your *1382 *5026 *1248 *1392 *2316 *5216 professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal *3671 *5292 *2098 *5547 *3588 *0572 distribution unto them, and unto all men; *2842 *3956 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding *1162 *1971 *1971 *5235 grace of God in you. *5485 *2316 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. *5485 *2316 *0411 *1431 10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, *1161 *3972 *3870 *4236 *1932 *5547 who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: *3739 *4383 *5011 *1722 *0548 *2292 *1519 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that *1189 *2292 *3918 confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as *4006 *3739 *3049 *5111 *1909 *5100 *3588 *3049 if we walked according to the flesh. *4043 *2596 *4561 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: *4043 *4561 *4754 *2596 *4561 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to *3696 *4752 *4559 *1415 *2316 the pulling down of strong holds;) *2506 *2506 *3794 *3794 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself *2507 *2504 *3053 *3956 *5313 *5313 *1869 against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to *2596 *1108 *2316 *0163 *0163 *3956 *3540 the obedience of Christ; *5218 *5547 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your *2192 *2092 *1556 *3956 *3876 *3752 *5216 obedience is fulfilled. *5218 *4137 7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust *0991 *0991 *2596 *4383 *4383 *1487 *5100 *3982 to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, *1438 *5547 *1438 *3049 *5124 *3825 as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. *5547 *2532 *3779 *5547 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord *1437 *2744 *5100 *4055 *1849 *3739 *2962 hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not *1325 *3619 *5216 *2506 be ashamed: *0153 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. *1380 *1629 *1992 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily *1992 *5346 *0926 *2478 *4983 presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. *3952 *0770 *3056 *1848 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when *3634 *3049 *5124 *5108 *3056 *1992 we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. *0548 *5108 *2532 *2041 *3918 12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves *5111 *1438 *1469 *2228 *4793 *1438 with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by *5100 *4921 *1438 *3354 *1438 themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. *1438 *4793 *1438 *1438 *4920 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to *2744 *0280 *0280 *2596 the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to *3358 *2583 *3739 *2316 *3307 *3358 reach even unto you. *2185 *2532 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached *5239 *1438 *5239 *2185 not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the *5348 *0891 *2532 gospel of Christ: *2098 *5547 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's *2744 *0280 *0280 *0245 labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be *2873 *2192 *1680 *5216 *4102 *0837 enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, *3170 *2596 *2583 *4050 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in *2097 *2097 *5238 *2744 another man's line of things made ready to our hand. *0245 *0245 *2583 *2092 *2092 17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. *2744 *2744 *2962 18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord *4921 *1438 *1384 *3739 *2962 commendeth. *4921 11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed *3785 *0430 *3397 *0877 *0235 bear with me. *0430 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to *2206 *2316 *2205 *0718 one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. *1520 *0435 *3936 *0053 *3933 *5547 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his *5399 *3381 *3381 *4458 *3789 *1818 *2096 *1722 subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is *3834 *3779 *5216 *3540 *5351 *0572 in Christ. *5547 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not *1487 *2064 *2784 *0243 *2424 *3739 preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or *2784 *2228 *2983 *2087 *4151 *3739 *2983 *2228 another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. *2087 *2098 *1209 *2573 *0430 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. *3049 *3367 *5302 *5228 *3029 *0652 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been *1499 *2399 *3056 *0235 *1108 throughly made manifest among you in all things. *3956 *5319 *5319 *1519 *3956 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, *4160 *0266 *5013 *1683 *5312 because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? *3754 *2097 *2098 *2316 *1432 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. *4813 *0243 *1577 *2983 *3800 *1248 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: *3918 *5302 *2655 *3762 *3762 for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia *5303 *0080 *2064 *3109 supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto *4322 *3956 *5083 *1683 *0004 you, and so will I keep myself. *5083 *1683 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting *0225 *5547 *3762 *5420 *3778 *2746 in the regions of Achaia. *2825 *0882 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. *1302 *3754 *0025 *2316 *1492 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them *3739 *4160 *4160 *1581 *1581 *0874 which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as *2309 *0874 *3757 *2744 *2147 *2532 we. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves *5108 *5570 *5570 *1386 *2040 *3345 into the apostles of Christ. *1519 *0652 *5547 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. *3756 *2298 *4567 *0846 *3345 *1519 *0032 *5457 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed *3767 *3756 *3173 *1499 *1249 *2532 *3345 as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their *1249 *1343 *3739 *5056 *2596 works. *2041 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a *3004 *3825 *3367 *5100 *1380 *0876 *1490 *1490 *2579 fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. *0876 *1209 *2744 *3397 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were *3739 *2980 *2980 *2596 *2962 foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. *0877 *5026 *5287 *2746 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. *1893 *4183 *2744 *2596 *4561 *2744 *2504 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. *0430 *0878 *2234 *5429 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour *0430 *1487 *5100 *2615 *2615 *1487 *5100 *2719 you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite *1487 *5100 *2983 *1487 *5100 *1869 *1487 *5100 *1194 you on the face. *1519 *4383 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit *3004 *2596 *0819 *3754 *0770 whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. *0302 *5100 *5111 *3004 *0877 *5111 *2504 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they *1445 *2504 *2475 *2504 the seed of Abraham? so am I. *4690 *0011 *2504 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours *1249 *5547 *2980 *3912 *5228 *2873 more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in *4056 *4056 *4127 *5234 *5234 *5438 *4056 *4056 deaths oft. *2288 *4178 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. *2453 *3999 *3999 *2983 *5062 *3844 *3391 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered *5151 *4463 *4463 *0530 *3034 *5151 shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; *3489 *3574 *3574 *4160 *1037 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in *3597 *4178 *2794 *4215 *2794 *3027 perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the *2794 *1085 *2794 *1484 *2794 city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among *4172 *2794 *2047 *2794 *2281 *2794 *1722 false brethren; *5569 *5569 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, *2873 *3449 *0070 *4178 *3042 *1373 in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. *3521 *4178 *5592 *1132 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, *5565 *3588 *3924 *3588 *1999 *2250 the care of all the churches. *3308 *3956 *1577 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? *5101 *0770 *0770 *5101 *4624 *4448 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine *1487 *1163 *2744 *2744 *4012 *3450 infirmities. *0769 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for *2316 *3962 *2962 *2424 *5547 *3588 *2128 evermore, knoweth that I lie not. *0165 *1492 *5574 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the *1154 *1481 *0702 *0935 *5432 *4172 Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: *1153 *5432 *2309 *4084 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and *1223 *2376 *4553 *5465 *5465 *5038 escaped his hands. *1628 *5495 12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions *4851 *1211 *2744 *2064 *3701 and revelations of the Lord. *0602 *2962 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I *1492 *0444 *5547 *4253 *1180 *2094 *4253 *1535 *4983 cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) *1492 *1492 *1535 *1535 *4983 *1492 *1492 *2316 *1492 such an one caught up to the third heaven. *5108 *0726 *5154 *3772 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I *1492 *5108 *0444 *1535 *4983 *1535 *4983 cannot tell: God knoweth;) *1492 *1492 *2316 *1492 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, *0726 *1519 *3857 *0191 *0731 *4487 which it is not lawful for a man to utter. *3739 *1832 *0444 *2980 5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine *5108 *2744 *1161 *1683 *2744 *3450 infirmities. *0769 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say *1437 *2309 *2744 *0876 *2046 the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that *0225 *5339 *3361 *5100 *3049 *5228 which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. *3739 *0991 *2228 *0191 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the *3361 *5229 *5236 revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of *0602 *1325 *4647 *4561 *0032 Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. *4567 *2852 *3361 *5229 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. *5127 *3870 *2962 *5151 *0868 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is *2046 *5485 *0714 *1411 made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my *5048 *5048 *0769 *2236 *2235 *3767 *3123 *2744 infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. *0769 *1411 *5547 *1981 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, *1352 *2106 *0769 *5196 *0318 in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, *1375 *4730 *5547 *3752 *1510 *0770 then am I strong. *2532 *1510 *1415 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to *1096 *0876 *2744 *0315 *3784 have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest *4921 *3762 *5302 *3029 *3029 apostles, though I be nothing. *0652 *1499 *3762 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, *3303 *4591 *0652 *2716 *1722 *3956 *5281 in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. *4591 *5059 *1411 *1411 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be *5101 *3757 *2274 *3062 *1577 *1508 that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. *2655 *5483 *5026 *0093 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be *2400 *5154 *2093 *2064 burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not *2655 *2212 *5216 *5043 *3784 to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. *2343 *1118 *1118 *5043 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more *2236 *2235 *1159 *1550 *1499 *4056 abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. *4056 *0025 *2276 *0025 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught *2599 *0235 *5225 *3835 *2983 you with guile. *1388 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? *4122 *4122 *5100 *3739 *0649 18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of *3870 *5103 *4882 *0080 *5103 *4122 *4122 you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? *4043 *0846 *4151 *4043 *0846 *2487 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God *3825 *1380 *0626 *2980 *2714 *2316 in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. *5547 *3956 *0027 *5216 *3619 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and *5399 *3381 *2064 *2147 *3634 *2309 that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, *2147 *3634 *2309 *3381 *2054 envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: *2205 *2372 *2052 *2636 *5587 *5450 *0181 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that *3361 *2064 *3825 *2316 *5013 *4314 I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the *3996 *4183 *3588 *4258 *4258 *3340 uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. *0167 *4202 *0766 *3739 *4238 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or *5124 *5154 *2064 *4750 *1417 *2532 three witnesses shall every word be established. *5140 *3144 *3956 *4487 *2476 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second *4280 *4280 *4302 *1437 *3918 *1208 time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, *0548 *3568 *1125 *4258 *4258 and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: *3956 *3062 *2064 *3825 *5339 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you- ward is not *1893 *2212 *1382 *5547 *2980 *3739 *5209 weak, but is mighty in you. *0770 *1414 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power *1487 *4717 *1537 *0769 *0235 *2198 *1411 of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the *2316 *2532 *0770 *2198 power of God toward you. *1411 *2316 *1519 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. *3985 *1438 *1487 *4102 *1381 *1438 *1438 Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be *1921 *1438 *1438 *2424 *5547 *1509 reprobates? *0096 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. *1679 *1097 *0096 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear *1161 *2172 *2316 *4160 *3367 *2556 *5316 approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as *1384 *4160 *2570 reprobates. *0096 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. *1410 *5100 *2596 *0225 *0225 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we *5463 *3752 *0770 *1415 *5124 *2532 wish, even your perfection. *2172 *5216 *2676 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should *5124 *1125 *5023 *0548 *3361 *3918 use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to *5530 *0664 *2596 *1849 *3739 *2962 *1325 edification, and not to destruction. *3619 *2506 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one *3063 *0080 *5463 *2675 *3870 *0846 mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. *5426 *1514 *1518 *2316 *0026 *1515 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. *0782 *0240 *0240 *0040 *5370 13 All the saints salute you. *3956 *0040 *0782 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the *5485 *2962 *2424 *5547 *0026 *2316 communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. *2842 *0040 *4151 *3956 *0281 ~~~~~~