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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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11 Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and

Timothy our brother unto the church of God which is at Corinth

with all the saints which are in all Achaia .

12 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the

Lord Jesus Christ .

13 Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the

Father of mercies and the God of all comfort .

14 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able

to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort

wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God .

15 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our

consolation also aboundeth by Christ .

16 And whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and

salvation which is effectual in the enduring of the same

sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted it is

for your consolation and salvation .

17 And our hope of you is stedfast knowing that as ye are

partakers of the sufferings so shall ye be also of the

consolation .

18 For we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble

which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure

above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life .

19 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should

not trust in ourselves but in God which raiseth the dead .

110 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in

whom we trust that he will yet deliver us .

111 Ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift

bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be

given by many on our behalf .

112 For our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience

that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom

but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the

world and more abundantly to you-ward .

113 For we write none other things unto you than what ye read

or acknowledge and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end .

114 As also ye have acknowledged us in part that we are your

rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus .

115 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before

that ye might have a second benefit .

116 And to pass by you into Macedonia and to come again out of

Macedonia unto you and of you to be brought on my way toward

Judaea .

117 When I therefore was thus minded did I use lightness or the

things that I purpose do I purpose according to the flesh that

with me there should be yea yea and nay nay .

118 But as God is true our word toward you was not yea and nay .

119 For the Son of God Jesus Christ who was preached among you

by us even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus was not yea and nay

but in him was yea .

120 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen

unto the glory of God by us .

121 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath

anointed us is God .

122 Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit

in our hearts .

123 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul that to spare

you I came not as yet unto Corinth .

124 Not for that we have dominion over your faith but are

helpers of your joy for by faith ye stand .

* 21 But I determined this with myself that I would not come

again to you in heaviness .

22 For if I make you sorry who is he then that maketh me glad

but the same which is made sorry by me .

23 And I wrote this same unto you lest when I came I should

have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice having

confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all .

24 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto

you with many tears not that ye should be grieved but that ye

might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you .

25 But if any have caused grief he hath not grieved me but in

part that I may not overcharge you all .

26 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment which was

inflicted of many .

27 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and

comfort him lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with

overmuch sorrow .

28 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love

toward him .

29 For to this end also did I write that I might know the proof

of you whether ye be obedient in all things .

210 To whom ye forgive any thing I forgive also for if I

forgave any thing to whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave I

it in the person of Christ .

211 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not

ignorant of his devices .

212 Furthermore when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel

and a door was opened unto me of the Lord .

213 I had no rest in my spirit because I found not Titus my

brother but taking my leave of them I went from thence into

Macedonia .

214 Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph

in Christ and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us

in every place .

215 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that

are saved and in them that perish .

216 To the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the

other the savour of life unto life And who is sufficient for

these things .

217 For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God but as

of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in

Christ .

* 31 Do we begin again to commend ourselves or need we as some

others epistles of commendation to you or letters of

commendation from you .

32 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of

all men .

33 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of

Christ ministered by us written not with ink but with the Spirit

of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of

the heart .

34 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward .

35 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing

as of ourselves but our sufficiency is of God .

36 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament

not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but

the spirit giveth life .

37 But if the ministration of death written and engraven in

stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not

stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his

countenance which glory was to be done away .

38 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather

glorious .

39 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more

doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory .

310 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this

respect by reason of the glory that excelleth .

311 For if that which is done away was glorious much more that

which remaineth is glorious .

312 Seeing then that we have such hope we use great plainness

of speech .

313 And not as Moses which put a veil over his face that the

children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that

which is abolished .

314 But their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth

the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament

which veil is done away in Christ .

315 But even unto this day when Moses is read the veil is upon

their heart .

316 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord the veil shall

be taken away .

317 Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the

Lord is there is liberty .

318 But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory

of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory

even as by the Spirit of the Lord .

* 41 Therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received

mercy we faint not .

42 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not

walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully

but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every

man's conscience in the sight of God .

43 But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost .

44 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them

which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of

Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them .

45 For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and

ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake .

46 For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness

hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of

the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ .

47 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the

excellency of the power may be of God and not of us .

48 We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are

perplexed but not in despair .

49 Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed .

410 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord

Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our

body .

411 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus'

sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our

mortal flesh .

412 So then death worketh in us but life in you .

413 We having the same spirit of faith according as it is

written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe

and therefore speak .

414 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise

up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you .

415 For all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace

might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of

God .

416 For which cause we faint not but though our outward man

perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day .

417 For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh

for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory .

418 While we look not at the things which are seen but at the

things which are not seen for the things which are seen are

temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal .

* 51 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle

were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with

hands eternal in the heavens .

52 For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon

with our house which is from heaven .

53 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked .

54 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened

not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that

mortality might be swallowed up of life .

55 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God

who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit .

56 Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are

at home in the body we are absent from the Lord .

57 (For we walk by faith not by sight .

58 We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from

the body and to be present with the Lord .

59 Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be

accepted of him .

510 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ

that every one may receive the things done in his body according

to that he hath done whether it be good or bad .

511 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men

but we are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made

manifest in your consciences .

512 For we commend not ourselves again unto you but give you

occasion to glory on our behalf that ye may have somewhat to

answer them which glory in appearance and not in heart .

513 For whether we be beside ourselves it is to God or whether

we be sober it is for your cause .

514 For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus

judge that if one died for all then were all dead .

515 And that he died for all that they which live should not

henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them

and rose again .

516 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea

though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth

know we him no more .

517 Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old

things are passed away behold all things are become new .

518 And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself

by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of

reconciliation .

519 To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto

himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath

committed unto us the word of reconciliation .

520 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did

beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled

to God .

521 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 .

* 61 We then as workers together with him beseech you also that

ye receive not the grace of God in vain .

62 (For he saith I have heard thee in a time accepted and in

the day of salvation have I succoured thee behold now is the

accepted time behold now is the day of salvation .

63 Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not

blamed .

64 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of

God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses

65 In stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in

watchings in fastings .

66 By pureness by knowledge by longsuffering by kindness by the

Holy Ghost by love unfeigned .

67 By the word of truth by the power of God by the armour of

righteousness on the right hand and on the left .

68 By honour and dishonour by evil report and good report as

deceivers and yet true .

69 As unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as

chastened and not killed .

610 As sorrowful yet alway rejoicing as poor yet making many

rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things .

611 O ye Corinthians our mouth is open unto you our heart is

enlarged .

612 Ye are not straitened in us but ye are straitened in your

own bowels .

613 Now for a recompence in the same (I speak as unto my

children be ye also enlarged .

614 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for

what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what

communion hath light with darkness .

615 And what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath

he that believeth with an infidel .

616 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for ye

are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell

in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall

be my people .

617 Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith

the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you .

618 And will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and

daughters saith the Lord Almighty .

* 71 Having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us

cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit

perfecting holiness in the fear of God .

72 Receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man

we have defrauded no man .

73 I speak not this to condemn you for I have said before that

ye are in our hearts to die and live with you .

74 Great is my boldness of speech toward you great is my

glorying of you I am filled with comfort I am exceeding joyful

in all our tribulation .

75 For when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest

but we were troubled on every side without were fightings within

were fears .

76 Nevertheless God that comforteth those that are cast down

comforted us by the coming of Titus .

77 And not by his coming only but by the consolation wherewith

he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire your

mourning your fervent mind toward me so that I rejoiced the more

78 For though I made you sorry with a letter I do not repent

though I did repent for I perceive that the same epistle hath

made you sorry though it were but for a season .

79 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 .

710 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be

repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death .

711 For behold this selfsame thing that ye sorrowed after a

godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing

of yourselves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what

vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge In all things ye

have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter .

712 Wherefore though I wrote unto 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

unto you .

713 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort yea and

exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus because his

spirit was refreshed by you all .

714 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you I am not

ashamed but as we spake all things to you in truth even so our

boasting which I made before Titus is found a truth .

715 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you whilst

he remembereth the obedience of you all how with fear and

trembling ye received him .

716 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all

things .

* 81 Moreover brethren we do you to wit of the grace of God

bestowed on the churches of Macedonia .

82 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of

their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of

their liberality .

83 For to their power I bear record yea and beyond their power

they were willing of themselves .

84 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift

and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints

85 And this they did not as we hoped but first gave their own

selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God .

86 Insomuch that we desired Titus that as he had begun so he

would also finish in you the same grace also .

87 Therefore as ye abound in every thing in faith and utterance

and knowledge and in all diligence and in your love to us see

that ye abound in this grace also .

88 I speak not by commandment but by occasion of the

forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love .

89 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 .

810 And herein I give my advice for this is expedient for you

who have begun before not only to do but also to be forward a

year ago .

811 Now therefore perform the doing of it that as there was a

readiness to will so there may be a performance also out of that

which ye have .

812 For if there be first a willing mind it is accepted

according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath

not .

813 For I mean not that other men be eased and ye burdened .

814 But by an equality that now at this time your abundance may

be a supply for their want that their abundance also may be a

supply for your want that there may be equality .

815 As it is written He that had gathered much had nothing over

and he that had gathered little had no lack .

816 But thanks be to God which put the same earnest care into

the heart of Titus for you .

817 For indeed he accepted the exhortation but being more

forward of his own accord he went unto you .

818 And we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in

the gospel throughout all the churches .

819 And not that only but who was also chosen of the churches

to travel with us with this grace which is administered by us to

the glory of the same Lord and declaration of your ready mind .

820 Avoiding this that no man should blame us in this abundance

which is administered by us .

821 Providing for honest things not only in the sight of the

Lord but also in the sight of men .

822 And we have sent with them our brother whom we have

oftentimes proved diligent in many things but now much more

diligent upon the great confidence which I have in you .

823 Whether any do enquire of Titus he is my partner and

fellowhelper concerning you or our brethren be enquired of they

are the messengers of the churches and the glory of Christ .

824 Wherefore shew ye to them and before the churches the proof

of your love and of our boasting on your behalf .

* 91 For as touching the ministering to the saints it is

superfluous for me to write to you .

92 For I know the forwardness of your mind for which I boast of

you to them of Macedonia that Achaia was ready a year ago and

your zeal hath provoked very many .

93 Yet have I sent the brethren lest our boasting of you should

be in vain in this behalf that as I said ye may be ready .

94 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me and find you

unprepared we (that we say not ye should be ashamed in this same

confident boasting .

95 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that

they would go before unto you and make up before hand your

bounty whereof ye had notice before that the same might be ready

as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness .

96 But this I say He which soweth sparingly shall reap also

sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also

bountifully .

97 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him

give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful

giver .

98 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you that ye

always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every

good work .

99 (As it is written He hath dispersed abroad he hath given to

the poor his righteousness remaineth for ever .

910 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister

bread for your food and multiply your seed sown and increase the

fruits of your righteousness .

911 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness which

causeth through us thanksgiving to God .

912 For the administration of this service not only supplieth

the want of the saints but is abundant also by many

thanksgivings unto God .

913 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify

God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ and

for your liberal distribution unto them and unto all men .

914 And by their prayer for you which long after you for the

exceeding grace of God in you .

915 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift .

* 101 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and

gentleness of Christ who in presence am base among you but being

absent am bold toward you .

102 But I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present

with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some

which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh .

103 For though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the

flesh .

104 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty

through God to the pulling down of strong holds .

105 Casting down imaginations and every high thing that

exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into

captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ .

106 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when

your obedience is fulfilled .

107 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance If any

man trust to himself that he is Christ's let him of himself

think this again that as he is Christ's even so are we Christ's .

108 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority

which the Lord hath given us for edification and not for your

destruction I should not be ashamed .

109 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters .

1010 For his letters say they are weighty and powerful but his

bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible .

1011 Let such an one think this that such as we are in word by

letters when we are absent such will we be also in deed when we

are present .

1012 For we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare

ourselves with some that commend themselves but they measuring

themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among

themselves are not wise .

1013 But we will not boast of things without our measure but

according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed

to us a measure to reach even unto you .

1014 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure as though

we reached not unto you for we are come as far as to you also in

preaching the gospel of Christ .

1015 Not boasting of things without our measure that is of

other men's labours but having hope when your faith is increased

that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule

abundantly .

1016 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you and not to

boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand .

1017 But he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord .

1018 For not he that commendeth himself is approved but whom

the Lord commendeth .

* 111 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly

and indeed bear with me .

112 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy for I have

espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste

virgin to Christ .

113 But I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve

through his subtilty so your minds should be corrupted from the

simplicity that is in Christ .

114 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 .

115 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest

apostles .

116 But though I be rude in speech yet not in knowledge but we

have been throughly made manifest among you in all things .

117 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might

be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God

freely .

118 I robbed other churches taking wages of them to do you

service .

119 And when I was present with you and wanted I was chargeable

to no man for that which was lacking to me the brethren which

came from Macedonia supplied and in all things I have kept

myself from being burdensome unto you and so will I keep myself .

1110 As the truth of Christ is in me no man shall stop me of

this boasting in the regions of Achaia .

1111 Wherefore because I love you not God knoweth .

1112 But what I do that I will do that I may cut off occasion

from them which desire occasion that wherein they glory they may

be found even as we .

1113 For such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming

themselves into the apostles of Christ .

1114 And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an

angel of light .

1115 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be

transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be

according to their works .

1116 I say again Let no man think me a fool if otherwise yet as

a fool receive me that I may boast myself a little .

1117 That which I speak I speak it not after the Lord but as it

were foolishly in this confidence of boasting .

1118 Seeing that many glory after the flesh I will glory also .

1119 For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise .

1120 For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man

devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man

smite you on the face .

1121 I speak as concerning reproach as though we had been weak

Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold (I speak foolishly I am bold

also .

1122 Are they Hebrews so am I Are they Israelites so am I Are

they the seed of Abraham so am I .

1123 Are they ministers of Christ (I speak as a fool I am more

in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons

more frequent in deaths oft .

1124 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one .

1125 Thrice was I beaten with rods once was I stoned thrice I

suffered shipwreck a night and a day I have been in the deep .

1126 In journeyings often in perils of waters in perils of

robbers in perils by mine own countrymen in perils by the

heathen in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in

perils in the sea in perils among false brethren .

1127 In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger

and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness .

1128 Beside those things that are without that which cometh

upon me daily the care of all the churches .

1129 Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn

not .

1130 If I must needs glory I will glory of the things which

concern mine infirmities .

1131 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which is

blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not .

1132 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the

city of the Damascenes with a garrison desirous to apprehend me .

1133 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the

wall and escaped his hands .

* 121 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come

to visions and revelations of the Lord .

122 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in

the body I cannot tell or whether out of the body I cannot tell

God knoweth such an one caught up to the third heaven .

123 And I knew such a man (whether in the body or out of the

body I cannot tell God knoeweth .

124 How that he was caught up into paradise and heard

unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter .

125 Of such an one will I glory yet of myself I will not glory

but in mine infirmities .

126 For though I would desire to glory I shall not be a fool

for I will say the truth but now I forbear lest any man should

think of me above that which he seeth me to be or that he

heareth of me .

127 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the

abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in

the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be

exalted above measure .

128 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might

depart from me .

129 And he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my

strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly therefore will

I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may

rest upon me .

1210 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in

necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake for

when I am weak then am I strong .

1211 I am become a fool in glorying ye have compelled me for I

ought to have been commended of you for in nothing am I behind

the very chiefest apostles though I be nothing .

1212 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in

all patience in signs and wonders and mighty deeds .

1213 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches

except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you forgive me

this wrong .

1214 Behold the third time I am ready to come to you and I will

not be burdensome to you for I seek not yours but you for the

children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for

the children .

1215 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though

the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved .

1216 But be it so I did not burden you nevertheless being

crafty I caught you with guile .

1217 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto

you .

1218 I desired Titus and with him I sent a brother Did Titus

make a gain of you walked we not in the same spirit walked we

not in the same steps .

1219 Again think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you we speak

before God in Christ but we do all things dearly beloved for

your edifying .

1220 For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I

would and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not

lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings

whisperings swellings tumults .

1221 And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you

and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already and have

not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and

lasciviousness which they have committed .

* 131 This is the third time I am coming to you In the mouth of

two or three witnesses shall every word be established .

132 I told you before and foretell you as if I were present the

second time and being absent now I write to them which

heretofore have sinned and to all other that if I come again I

will not spare .

133 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me which to you-

ward is not weak but is mighty in you .

134 For though he was crucified through weakness yet he liveth

by the power of God For we also are weak in him but we shall

live with him by the power of God toward you .

135 Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith prove your

own selves Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is

in you except ye be reprobates .

136 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates .

137 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil not that we should

appear approved but that ye should do that which is honest

though we be as reprobates .

138 For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth .

139 For we are glad when we are weak and ye are strong and this

also we wish even your perfection .

1310 Therefore I write these things being absent lest being

present I should use sharpness according to the power which the

Lord hath given me to edification and not to destruction .

1311 Finally brethren farewell Be perfect be of good comfort be

of one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be

with you .

1312 Greet one another with an holy kiss .

1313 All the saints salute you .

1314 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and

the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen .