/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 FLESHY 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 VAIL 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 VAIL UNTAKEN AWAY IN THE READING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH VAIL IS DONE AWAY IN CHRIST.
/3-15- BUT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY
WHEN MOSES IS READ
THE VAIL IS UPON THEIR HEART.
/3-16- NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD
THE VAIL 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 RECOMPENCE 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 INTREATY 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 ENQUIRE OF TITUS
HE IS MY PARTNER AND FELLOWHELPER CONCERNING YOU- OR OUR BRETHREN BE ENQUIRED OF
THEY ARE THE MESSENGERS OF THE CHURCHES
AND THE GLORY OF CHRIST.
/8-24- WHEREFORE SHEW 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 BEFOREHAND 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 SUBTILTY
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 THROUGHLY 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.
