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I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.

For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

I have become a fool; *ye* have compelled me; for *I* ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

This third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Be as *I* [am], for *I* also [am] as *ye*, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

But [it is] right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you—

and I should wish to be present with you now, and change my voice, for I am perplexed as to you.

But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.

But in order that *ye* also may know what concerns me, how I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in [the] Lord, shall make all things known to you;