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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. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): 2 CORINTHIANS *** + +This file should be named 8274.txt or 8274.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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