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+Book 47 2 Corinthians
+001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God,
+        and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth,
+        with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
+001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
+001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
+        the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
+001:004 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able
+        to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort
+        with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
+001:005 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our
+        comfort also abounds through Christ.
+001:006 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation.
+        If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces
+        in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which
+        we also suffer.
+001:007 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are
+        partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
+001:008 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word
+        for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be
+        correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
+        concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia,
+        that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power,
+        so much that we despaired even of life.
+001:009 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves,
+        that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who
+        raises the dead,
+001:010 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver;
+        on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
+001:011 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication;
+        that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many,
+        thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
+001:012 For our boasting is this:  the testimony of our conscience,
+        that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom
+        but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world,
+        and more abundantly toward you.
+001:013 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or
+        even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
+001:014 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting,
+        even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
+001:015 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you,
+        that you might have a second benefit;
+001:016 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come
+        to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
+001:017 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness?
+        Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,
+        that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
+001:018 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
+001:019 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you
+        by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no,"
+        but in him is "Yes."
+001:020 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes."
+        Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory
+        of God through us.
+001:021 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed
+        us, is God;
+001:022 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit
+        in our hearts.
+001:023 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come
+        to Corinth to spare you.
+001:024 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow
+        workers with you for your joy.  For you stand firm in faith.
+002:001 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you
+        again in sorrow.
+002:002 For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who
+        is made sorry by me?
+002:003 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came,
+        I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice;
+        having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared
+        by all of you.
+002:004 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you
+        with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you
+        might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
+002:005 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me,
+        but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
+002:006 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted
+        by the many;
+002:007 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and
+        comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed
+        up with his excessive sorrow.
+002:008 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
+002:009 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you,
+        whether you are obedient in all things.
+002:010 Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything.
+        For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven
+        that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
+002:011 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are
+        not ignorant of his schemes.
+002:012 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ,
+        and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
+002:013 I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn't find Titus,
+        my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
+002:014 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ,
+        and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge
+        in every place.
+002:015 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved,
+        and in those who perish;
+002:016 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet
+        aroma from life to life.  Who is sufficient for these things?
+002:017 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God.
+        But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God,
+        we speak in Christ.
+003:001 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves?  Or do we need,
+        as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
+003:002 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read
+        by all men;
+003:003 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us,
+        written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God;
+        not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
+003:004 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
+003:005 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything
+        as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
+003:006 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant;
+        not of the letter, but of the Spirit.  For the letter kills,
+        but the Spirit gives life.
+003:007 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones,
+        came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look
+        steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face;
+        which was passing away:
+003:008 won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?
+003:009 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service
+        of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
+003:010 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has
+        not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the
+        glory that surpasses.
+003:011 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that
+        which remains is in glory.
+003:012 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
+003:013 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children
+        of Israel wouldn't look steadfastly on the end of that which
+        was passing away.
+003:014 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day
+        at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains,
+        because in Christ it passes away.
+003:015 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
+003:016 But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
+003:017 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
+        there is liberty.
+003:018 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory
+        of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory
+        to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
+004:001 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy,
+        we don't faint.
+004:002 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking
+        in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
+        but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves
+        to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
+004:003 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
+004:004 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of
+        the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory
+        of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
+004:005 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord,
+        and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
+004:006 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of
+        darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give
+        the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
+        of Jesus Christ.
+004:007 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding
+        greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
+004:008 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet
+        not to despair;
+004:009 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
+004:010 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus,
+        that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
+004:011 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus'
+        sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in
+        our mortal flesh.
+004:012 So then death works in us, but life in you.
+004:013 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which
+        is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke."{Psalm 116:10}
+        We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
+004:014 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us
+        also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
+004:015 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace,
+        being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving
+        to abound to the glory of God.
+004:016 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying,
+        yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
+004:017 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us
+        more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
+004:018 while we don't look 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.
+005:001 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved,
+        we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
+        eternal, in the heavens.
+005:002 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed
+        with our habitation which is from heaven;
+005:003 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
+005:004 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened;
+        not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to
+        be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
+005:005 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave
+        to us the down payment of the Spirit.
+005:006 Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we
+        are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
+005:007 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
+005:008 We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be
+        absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
+005:009 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent,
+        to be well pleasing to him.
+005:010 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ;
+        that each one may receive the things in the body, according to
+        what he has done, whether good or bad.
+005:011 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men,
+        but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed
+        also in your consciences.
+005:012 For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak
+        as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you
+        may have something to answer those who boast in appearance,
+        and not in heart.
+005:013 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God.  Or if we are
+        of sober mind, it is for you.
+005:014 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus,
+        that one died for all, therefore all died.
+005:015 He died for all, that those who live should no longer
+        live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died
+        and rose again.
+005:016 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on.
+        Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we
+        know him so no more.
+005:017 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
+        The old things have passed away.  Behold, all things
+        have become new.
+005:018 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through
+        Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
+005:019 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,
+        not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed
+        to us the word of reconciliation.
+005:020 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though
+        God were entreating by us.  We beg you on behalf of Christ,
+        be reconciled to God.
+005:021 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf;
+        so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
+006:001 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace
+        of God in vain,
+006:002 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you,
+        in a day of salvation I helped you."{Isaiah 49:8} Behold,
+        now is the acceptable time.  Behold, now is the day of salvation.
+006:003 We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service
+        may not be blamed,
+006:004 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God,
+        in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
+006:005 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors,
+        in watchings, in fastings;
+006:006 in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness,
+        in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
+006:007 in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor
+        of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
+006:008 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report;
+        as deceivers, and yet true;
+006:009 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live;
+        as punished, and not killed;
+006:010 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich;
+        as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
+006:011 Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians.  Our heart is enlarged.
+006:012 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by
+        your own affections.
+006:013 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.
+006:014 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship
+        have righteousness and iniquity?  Or what communion has
+        light with darkness?
+006:015 What agreement has Christ with Belial?  Or what portion has
+        a believer with an unbeliever?
+006:016 What agreement has a temple of God with idols?
+        For you are a temple of the living God.  Even as God said,
+        "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
+        their God, and they will be my people."{Leviticus 26:12;
+        Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27}
+006:017 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,'
+        says the Lord.  'Touch no unclean thing.  I will receive
+        you.{Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34,41}
+006:018 I will be to you a Father.  You will be to me sons and daughters,'
+        says the Lord Almighty."{2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8}
+007:001 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
+        from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness
+        in the fear of God.
+007:002 Open your hearts to us.  We wronged no one.  We corrupted no one.
+        We took advantage of no one.
+007:003 I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before,
+        that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
+007:004 Great is my boldness of speech toward you.  Great is my
+        boasting on your behalf.  I am filled with comfort.
+        I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
+007:005 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief,
+        but we were afflicted on every side.  Fightings were outside.
+        Fear was inside.
+007:006 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us
+        by the coming of Titus;
+007:007 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which
+        he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing,
+        your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
+007:008 For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it,
+        though I did regret it.  For I see that my letter made you sorry,
+        though just for a while.
+007:009 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made
+        sorry to repentance.  For you were made sorry in a godly way,
+        that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
+007:010 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings
+        no regret.  But the sorrow of the world works death.
+007:011 For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry
+        in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you.
+        Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance!
+        In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure
+        in the matter.
+007:012 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that
+        did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong,
+        but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you
+        in the sight of God.
+007:013 Therefore we have been comforted.  In our comfort we rejoiced
+        the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit
+        has been refreshed by you all.
+007:014 For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf,
+        I was not disappointed.  But as we spoke all things to you
+        in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus
+        was found to be truth.
+007:015 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers
+        all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling
+        you received him.
+007:016 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
+008:001 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God
+        which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
+008:002 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy
+        and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
+008:003 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power,
+        they gave of their own accord,
+008:004 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and
+        the fellowship in the service to the saints.
+008:005 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own
+        selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
+008:006 So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before,
+        so he would also complete in you this grace.
+008:007 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge,
+        all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also
+        abound in this grace.
+008:008 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through
+        the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
+008:009 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
+        though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor,
+        that you through his poverty might become rich.
+008:010 I give a judgment in this:  for this is expedient for you,
+        who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do,
+        but also to be willing.
+008:011 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness
+        to be willing, so there may be the completion also out
+        of your ability.
+008:012 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according
+        to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
+008:013 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
+008:014 but for equality.  Your abundance at this present time supplies
+        their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply
+        for your lack; that there may be equality.
+008:015 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over,
+        and he who gathered little had no lack."{Exodus 16:8}
+008:016 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you
+        into the heart of Titus.
+008:017 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself
+        very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
+008:018 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise
+        in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.
+008:019 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies
+        to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us
+        to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
+008:020 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning
+        this abundance which is administered by us.
+008:021 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight
+        of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
+008:022 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times
+        proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest,
+        by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
+008:023 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you.
+        As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies,
+        the glory of Christ.
+008:024 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front
+        of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
+009:001 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning
+        the service to the saints,
+009:002 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them
+        of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past.
+        Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
+009:003 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf
+        may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said,
+        you may be prepared,
+009:004 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of
+        Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you)
+        should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
+009:005 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they
+        would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous
+        gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready
+        as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
+009:006 Remember this:  he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly.
+        He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
+009:007 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart;
+        not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves
+        a cheerful giver.
+009:008 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you,
+        always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound
+        to every good work.
+009:009 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor.
+        His righteousness remains forever."{Psalm 112:9}
+009:010 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food,
+        supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase
+        the fruits of your righteousness;
+009:011 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works
+        through us thanksgiving to God.
+009:012 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes
+        up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many
+        givings of thanks to God;
+009:013 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify
+        God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News
+        of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them
+        and to all;
+009:014 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf,
+        yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
+009:015 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
+010:001 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness
+        of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you,
+        but being absent am of good courage toward you.
+010:002 Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with
+        the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some,
+        who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
+010:003 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according
+        to the flesh;
+010:004 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty
+        before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
+010:005 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted
+        against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought
+        into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
+010:006 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your
+        obedience will be made full.
+010:007 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face?
+        If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him
+        consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's,
+        so also we are Christ's.
+010:008 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning
+        our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up,
+        and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,
+010:009 that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
+010:010 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong,
+        but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
+010:011 Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word
+        by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed
+        when we are present.
+010:012 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some
+        of those who commend themselves.  But they themselves,
+        measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves
+        with themselves, are without understanding.
+010:013 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within
+        the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach
+        even to you.
+010:014 For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't
+        reach to you.  For we came even as far as to you with the
+        Good News of Christ,
+010:015 not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors,
+        but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly
+        enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
+010:016 so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you,
+        not to boast in what someone else has already done.
+010:017 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24}
+010:018 For it isn't he who commends himself who is approved,
+        but whom the Lord commends.
+011:001 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness,
+        but indeed you do bear with me.
+011:002 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy.
+        For I married you to one husband, that I might present you
+        as a pure virgin to Christ.
+011:003 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve
+        in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from
+        the simplicity that is in Christ.
+011:004 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach,
+        or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive,
+        or a different "good news", which you did not accept,
+        you put up with that well enough.
+011:005 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
+011:006 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled
+        in knowledge.  No, in every way we have been revealed to you
+        in all things.
+011:007 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted,
+        because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
+011:008 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I
+        might serve you.
+011:009 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden
+        on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia,
+        supplied the measure of my need.  In everything I kept myself
+        from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
+011:010 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this
+        boasting in the regions of Achaia.
+011:011 Why?  Because I don't love you?  God knows.
+011:012 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion
+        from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast,
+        they may be found even as we.
+011:013 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers,
+        masquerading as Christ's apostles.
+011:014 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
+011:015 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade
+        as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according
+        to their works.
+011:016 I say again, let no one think me foolish.  But if so,
+        yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
+011:017 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord,
+        but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
+011:018 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
+011:019 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
+011:020 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage,
+        if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself,
+        if he strikes you on the face.
+011:021 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak.
+        Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
+011:022 Are they Hebrews?  So am I. Are they Israelites?  So am I. Are
+        they the seed of Abraham?  So am I.
+011:023 Are they servants of Christ?  (I speak as one beside himself)
+        I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly,
+        in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
+011:024 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
+011:025 Three times I was beaten with rods.  Once I was stoned.
+        Three times I suffered shipwreck.  I have been a night
+        and a day in the deep.
+011:026 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers,
+        perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles,
+        perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea,
+        perils among false brothers;
+011:027 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst,
+        in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
+011:028 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which
+        presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
+011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak?  Who is caused to stumble,
+        and I don't burn with indignation?
+011:030 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
+011:031 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is
+        blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
+011:032 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city
+        of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
+011:033 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall,
+        and escaped his hands.
+012:001 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast.
+        For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
+012:002 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body,
+        I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know;
+        God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
+012:003 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body,
+        I don't know; God knows),
+012:004 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words,
+        which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
+012:005 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I
+        will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
+012:006 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish;
+        for I will speak the truth.  But I refrain, so that no
+        man may think more of me than that which he sees in me,
+        or hears from me.
+012:007 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations,
+        that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me
+        a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me,
+        that I should not be exalted excessively.
+012:008 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it
+        might depart from me.
+012:009 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my
+        power is made perfect in weakness."  Most gladly therefore I
+        will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ
+        may rest on me.
+012:010 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries,
+        in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake.
+        For when I am weak, then am I strong.
+012:011 I have become foolish in boasting.  You compelled me, for I
+        ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I
+        inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
+012:012 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience,
+        in signs and wonders and mighty works.
+012:013 For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of
+        the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you?
+        Forgive me this wrong.
+012:014 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I
+        will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions,
+        but you.  For the children ought not to save up for the parents,
+        but the parents for the children.
+012:015 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.
+        If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
+012:016 But be it so, I did not myself burden you.  But, being crafty,
+        I caught you with deception.
+012:017 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have
+        sent to you?
+012:018 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him.  Did Titus
+        take any advantage of you?  Didn't we walk in the same spirit?
+        Didn't we walk in the same steps?
+012:019 Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you?
+        In the sight of God we speak in Christ.  But all things,
+        beloved, are for your edifying.
+012:020 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find
+        you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you
+        as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife,
+        jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings,
+        proud thoughts, riots;
+012:021 that again when I come my God would humble me before you,
+        and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now,
+        and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality
+        and lustfulness which they committed.
+013:001 This is the third time I am coming to you.  "At the mouth of two
+        or three witnesses shall every word established."{Deuteronomy 19:15}
+013:002 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I
+        was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write
+        to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest,
+        that, if I come again, I will not spare;
+013:003 seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me;
+        who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
+013:004 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through
+        the power of God.  For we also are weak in him, but we will
+        live with him through the power of God toward you.
+013:005 Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith.
+        Test your own selves.  Or don't you know as to your own selves,
+        that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
+013:006 But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified.
+013:007 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may
+        appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable,
+        though we are as reprobate.
+013:008 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
+013:009 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong.
+        And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
+013:010 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not
+        deal sharply when present, according to the authority which
+        the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
+013:011 Finally, brothers, rejoice.  Be perfected, be comforted,
+        be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love
+        and peace will be with you.
+013:012 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
+013:013 All the saints greet you.
+013:014 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
+        and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.  Amen.
+
+
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