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While we are in this earthly house, we groan because of its weight: yet we are unwilling to leave it, but rather wish to add to it, so that death will be overcome by life.

Therefore we know and are convinced, that so long as we dwell in the body, we are absent from our LORD.

Knowing therefore the fear of our LORD, we try in a persuasive way to win men; so we are very well understood by God; and I trust we are also understood by you.

SO we beseech you, as helpers, that the grace of God which you have received may not be in vain among you.

Give no occasion for offence to any one in anything, so that there be no blemish in our ministry:

But it has made me exceedingly happy, not that you were sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance: for you were sorry over the things of God, so that you lack nothing from us.

For I was not shamed in the things which I have boasted to him about you; but just as all the things about which we have spoken to you are true, even so our boasting to Titus is found to be true.

Insomuch as we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish this same gift among you.

For you know the gracious gift of our LORD Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might be rich.

Now therefore perform the doing of that which you wished to do; and as you were eager to promise it, so fulfil from that which you have.

So that he also has been chosen by the churches to travel with us for this relief which is administered by us to the very glory of God and for our own encouragement:

Yet I have sent the brethren, so that our pride in you should not be in vain because of this question; for as I have said, you must be prepared:

So let every man give according to what he has decided in his mind, not grudgingly or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Do you judge by outward appearance? If any man thinks of himself that he belongs to Christ, let him know this of himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so we also belong.

But let him who supposes so consider this, that, just as we express ourselves in our epistles when we are away, so are we also in deed when we are present.

And we shall become strengthened so that we may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not boast of the things already done by others.

I WISH you to be patient with me for a while, so that I may speak plainly, and I am sure you will be.

But I am afraid, that just as the serpent through his deceitfulness misled Eve, so your minds should be corrupted from the sincerity that is in Christ.

And when I came to you and was in need, I did not burden any of you for my wants were supplied by the brethren who came from Mac-e-do''ni-a : I have taken care of myself in every way and I will so continue to keep myself that I will not be a burden to you.

But what I do, I will continue to do, so as to give no occasion to those who seek an occasion; and that, in whatever they boast, they may not be found equal to us;