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Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Yea, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raiseth the dead:

For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more especially toward you.

As God is faithful, our word to you hath not been yea and nay.

For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus was not yea and nay; but was yea in him.

For all the promises of God are yea in him, and amen in him, to the glory of God by us.

For he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and that hath anointed us is God:

But I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth.

Now thanks be to God, who causeth us always to triumph through Christ, and manifesteth by us in every place the odour of his knowledge.

For we are to God a sweet odour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

Manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Such trust have we in God through Christ.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God:

not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully corrupting the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Whose unbelieving minds the god of this world hath blinded, lest the illumination of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine upon them.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to inlighten us with the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

For all things are for your sakes, that the overflowing grace might through the thanksgiving of many abound to the glory of God.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.