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1:1 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:

1:2 Grace be] to you and peace from God our Father, and from]

the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 Blessed be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

1:4 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.

1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our

consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

1:6 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.

1:7 And our hope of you is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are

partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be] also of the

consolation.

1:8 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:

1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we

should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver:

in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us];

1:11 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.

1:12 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.

1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read

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

1:14 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.

1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you

before, that ye might have a second benefit;

1:16 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.

1:17 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?

1:18 But as] God is] true, our word toward you was not yea and

nay.

1:19 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.

1:20 For all the promises of God in him are] yea, and in him

Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath

anointed us, is] God;

1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the

Spirit in our hearts.

1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to

spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are

helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come

again to you in heaviness.

2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad,

but the same which is made sorry by me?

2:3 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.

2:4 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.

2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but

in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

2:6 Sufficient to such a man is] this punishment, which was

inflicted] of many.

2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought] rather to forgive him], and

comfort him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up

with overmuch sorrow.

2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your] love

toward him.

2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the

proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

2:10 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;

2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not

ignorant of his devices.

2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach] Christ's

gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

2:13 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.

2:14 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.

2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that

are saved, and in them that perish:

2:16 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?

2:17 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.

3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some

others], epistles of commendation to you, or letters] of

commendation from you?

3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of

all men:

3:3 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 fleshly

tables of the heart.

3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing

as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is] of God;

3:6 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.

3:7 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:

3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather

glorious?

3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be] glory, much

more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this

respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

3:11 For if that which is done away was] glorious, much more

that which remaineth is] glorious.

3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness

of speech:

3:13 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:

3:14 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.

3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is

upon their heart.

3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil

shall be taken away.

3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the

Lord is], there is] liberty.

3:18 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.

4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received

mercy, we faint not;

4:2 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.

4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4:4 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.

4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and

ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

4:6 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.

4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the

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

4:8 We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are]

perplexed, but not in despair;

4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

4:10 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.

4:11 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.

4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

4:13 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;

4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise

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

4:15 For all things are] for your sakes, that the abundant

grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the

glory of God.

4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man

perish, yet the inward man] is renewed day by day.

4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,

worketh for us a far more exceeding and] eternal weight of glory;

4:18 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.

5:1 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.

5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon

with our house which is from heaven:

5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

5:4 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.

5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is] God,

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

5:6 Therefore we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we

are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

5:8 We are confident, I say], and willing rather to be absent

from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

5:9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we

may be accepted of him.

5:10 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.

5:11 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.

5:12 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.

5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is] to God: or

whether we be sober, it is] for your cause.

5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus

judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

5:15 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.

5:16 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.

5:17 Therefore if any man be] in Christ, he is] a new creature:

old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

5:18 And all things are] of God, who hath reconciled us to

himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of

reconciliation;

5:19 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.

5:20 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.

5:21 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.

6:1 We then, as] workers together with him], beseech you] also

that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

6:2 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.)

6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not

blamed:

6:4 But in all things] approving ourselves as the ministers of

God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in

distresses,

6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in

watchings, in fastings;

6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness,

by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of

righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as

deceivers, and yet] true;

6:9 As unknown, and yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we

live; as chastened, and not killed;

6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making

many rich; as having nothing, and yet] possessing all things.

6:11 O ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart

is enlarged.

6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your

own bowels.

6:13 Now for a recompense in the same, I speak as unto my]

children,) be ye also enlarged.

6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for

what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and

what communion hath light with darkness?

6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part

hath he that believeth with an infidel?

6:16 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.

6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,

saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing]; and I will

receive you,

6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and

daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

7:1 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.

7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no

man, we have defrauded no man.

7:3 I speak not this] to condemn you]: for I have said before,

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

7:4 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.

7:5 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.

7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down,

comforted us by the coming of Titus;

7:7 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.

7:8 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.

7:9 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.

7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be

repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

7:11 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.

7:12 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.

7:13 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.

7:14 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.

7:15 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.

7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all

things].

8:1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God

bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of

their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of

their liberality.

8:3 For to their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their]

power they were] willing of themselves;

8:4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the

gift, and take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the

saints.

8:5 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.

8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he

would also finish in you the same grace also.

8:7 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.

8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the

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

8:9 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.

8:10 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.

8:11 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.

8:12 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.

8:13 For I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

8:14 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:

8:15 As it is written, He that had gathered] much had nothing

over; and he that had gathered] little had no lack.

8:16 But thanks be] to God, which put the same earnest care

into the heart of Titus for you.

8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more

forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is] in

the gospel throughout all the churches;

8:19 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:

8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this

abundance which is administered by us:

8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the

Lord, but also in the sight of men.

8:22 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.

8:23 Whether any do inquire] of Titus, he is] my partner and

fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of,

they are] the messengers of the churches, and] the glory of

Christ.

8:24 Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the

proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is

superfluous for me to write to you:

9:2 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.

9:3 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:

9:4 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.

9:5 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.

9:6 But this I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also

sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also

bountifully.

9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let

him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a

cheerful giver.

9:8 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:

9:9 As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given

to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

9:10 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;)

9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which

causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth

the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many

thanksgivings unto God;

9:13 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];

9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the

exceeding grace of God in you.

9:15 Thanks be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.

10:1 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:

10:2 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.

10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the

flesh:

10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are] not carnal, but mighty

through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

10:5 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;

10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience,

when your obedience is fulfilled.

10:7 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.

10:8 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:

10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

10:10 For his] letters, say they, are] weighty and powerful;

but his] bodily presence is] weak, and his] speech contemptible.

10:11 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.

10:12 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.

10:13 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.

10:14 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:

10:15 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,

10:16 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.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom

the Lord commendeth.

11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my] folly:

and indeed bear with me.

11:2 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.

11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve

through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the

simplicity that is in Christ.

11:4 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].

11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest

apostles.

11:6 But though I be] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but

we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.

11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye

might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of

God freely?

11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them], to do you

service.

11:9 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].

11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of

this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

11:12 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.

11:13 For such are] false apostles, deceitful workers,

transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an

angel of light.

11:15 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.

11:16 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.

11:17 That which I speak, I speak it] not after the Lord, but

as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves] are

wise.

11:20 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.

11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been

weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, I speak foolishly,) I

am bold also.

11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am] I. Are they Israelites? so am] I.

Are they the seed of Abraham? so am] I.

11:23 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.

11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes] save one.

11:25 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;

11:26 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;

11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in

hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh

upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I

burn not?

11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which

concern mine infirmities.

11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is

blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the

city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the

wall, and escaped his hands.

12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come

to visions and revelations of the Lord.

12:2 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.

12:3 And I knew such a man, whether in the body, or out of the

body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard

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

12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not

glory, but in mine infirmities.

12:6 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.

12:7 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.

12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might

depart from me.

12:9 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.

12:10 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.

12:11 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.

12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in

all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

12:13 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.

12:14 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.

12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though

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

12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being

crafty, I caught you with guile.

12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto

you?

12:18 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?

12:19 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.

12:20 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:

12:21 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.

13:1 This is] the third time] I am coming to you. In the mouth

of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

13:2 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:

13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to

you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

13:4 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.

13:5 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?

13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

13:7 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.

13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and

this also we wish, even] your perfection.

13:10 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.

13:11 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.

13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.

13:13 All the saints salute you.

13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be] with you all. Amen.

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