\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Corinthians}
{\MT Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Paul,
an
apostle
of
Jesus
Christ
by
the
will
of
God,
and
Timothy
our
brother:
to
the
church
of
God
that
is
at
Corinth,
with
all
the
saints
that
are
in
all
Achaia:
\VS{2}Grace unto
you
and
peace
from
God
our
Father,
and
from
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{3}Blessed
be
the
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
the
Father
of
mercies,
and
the
God
of
all
comfort.
\VS{4}Who comforteth
us
in
all
our
tribulation;
that
we
also
may
be
able
to
comfort
them
who
are
in
all
distress,
by
the
exhortation wherewith
we
also
are
exhorted
by
God.
\VS{5}For
as
the
sufferings
of
Christ
abound
in
us:
so
also
by
Christ doth
our
comfort
abound.
\VS{6}Now
whether
we
be
in tribulation,
it
is
for
your
exhortation
and
salvation:
or
whether
we
be
comforted,
it
is
for
your
consolation:
or
whether
we
be
exhorted,
it
is
for
your
exhortation
and
salvation,
which worketh
the
enduring
of
the
same
sufferings
which
we
also
suffer.
\VS{7}That
our
hope
for
you
may
be
steadfast:
knowing
that
as
you
are
partakers
of
the
sufferings,
so
shall
you
be
also
of
the
consolation.
\VS{8}For
we
would
not
have
you
ignorant,
brethren,
of
our
tribulation,
which
came
to
us
in
Asia,
that
we
were pressed
out
of
measure
above
our
strength,
so
that
we
were weary
even
of
life.
\VS{9}But
we
had
in
ourselves
the answer
of
death,
that
we
should
not
trust
in
ourselves,
but
in
God
who raiseth
the
dead.
\VS{10}Who hath
delivered
and doth
deliver
us
out
of
so
great dangers:
in
whom
we
trust
that
he
will
yet
also
deliver
us.
\VS{11}You
helping withal
in
prayer
for
us:
that
for
this
gift obtained
for
us,
by
the
means
of
many
persons,
thanks
may
be
given
by
many
in
our
behalf.
\VS{12}For
our glory
is
this,
the
testimony
of
our
conscience,
that
in simplicity
of heart
and
sincerity
of
God,
and
not
in carnal
wisdom,
but
in
the
grace
of
God,
we
have conversed
in
this
world:
and
more abundantly towards
you.
\VS{13}For
we
write
no
other
things
to
you
than
what
you
have
read
and
known.
And
I
hope
that
you
shall
know unto
the
end:
\VS{14}As
also
you
have
known
us
in
part,
that
we
are
your
glory,
as
you
also
are
ours,
in
the
day
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{15}And
in
this
confidence
I
had
a
mind
to
come
to
you
before,
that
you
might
have
a
second
grace:
\VS{16}And
to
pass
by
you
into
Macedonia,
and
again
from
Macedonia
to
come
to
you,
and
by
you
to
be
brought
on
my
way towards
Judea.
\VS{17}Whereas
then
I
was
thus minded,
did
I
use lightness?
Or,
the
things
that
I
purpose,
do
I
purpose
according
to
the
flesh,
that
there
should
be
with
me,
It
is,
and
It
is
not?
\VS{18}But
God
is
faithful,
for
our
preaching
which
was
to
you,
was
not,
It
is,
and
It
is
not.
\VS{19}For
the
Son
of
God,
Jesus
Christ
who
was
preached
among
you
by
us,
by
me,
and Sylvanus,
and
Timothy,
was
not,
It
is
and
It
is
not,
but,
It
is,
was
in
him.
\VS{20}For
all
the
promises
of
God
are
in
him,
It
is;
therefore
also
by
him,
amen
to
God, unto
our
glory.
\VS{21}Now
he
that confirmeth
us
with
you
in
Christ,
and
that hath
anointed
us,
is
God:
\VS{22}Who
also hath
sealed
us,
and
given
the
pledge
of
the
Spirit
in
our
hearts.
\VS{23}But
I
call
God
to
witness
upon
my
soul,
that
to
spare
you,
I
came
not
any
more
to
Corinth:
\VS{24}not
because
we exercise dominion
over
your
faith:
but
we
are helpers
of
your
joy:
for
in
faith
you
stand.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
I
determined
this
with
myself,
not
to
come
to
you
again
in
sorrow.
\VS{2}For
if
I
make
you
sorrowful,
who
is
he
then
that can
make
me
glad,
but
the
same
who
is
made
sorrowful
by
me?
\VS{3}And
I
wrote
this
same
to
you;
that
I
may
not,
when
I
come,
have
sorrow
upon
sorrow,
from
them
of
whom
I
ought
to
rejoice:
having
confidence
in
you
all,
that
my
joy
is
the
joy
of
you
all.
\VS{4}For
out
of
much
affliction
and
anguish
of
heart,
I
wrote
to
you
with
many
tears:
not
that
you
should
be
made
sorrowful:
but
that
you
might
know
the charity
I
have
more abundantly towards
you.
\VS{5}And
if
any
one
have
caused grief,
he hath
not
grieved
me;
but
in
part,
that
I
may
not
burden
you
all.
\VS{6}To him
who
is
such
a
one,
this rebuke
is
sufficient,
which
is given
by
many:
\VS{7}So
that
on
the
contrary,
you
should
rather
forgive
him
and
comfort
him,
lest perhaps
such
a
one
be
swallowed
up
with overmuch
sorrow.
\VS{8}Wherefore,
I beseech
you,
that
you
would confirm
your charity towards
him.
\VS{9}For
to
this
end
also
did
I
write,
that
I
may
know
the experiment
of
you,
whether
you
be
obedient
in
all
things.
\VS{10}And
to
whom
you
have pardoned
any
thing,
I
also.
For,
what
I
have pardoned,
if
I
have pardoned
any
thing,
for
your
sakes
have
I done
it
in
the
person
of
Christ.
\VS{11}That
we
be
not overreached
by
Satan.
For
we
are
not
ignorant
of
his devices.
\VS{12}And
when
I
was
come
to
Troas
for
the
gospel
of
Christ,
and
a
door
was
opened unto
me
in
the
Lord,
\VS{13}I
had
no
rest
in
my
spirit,
because
I
found
not
Titus
my
brother;
but
bidding
them
farewell,
I
went
into
Macedonia.
\VS{14}Now
thanks
be
to
God,
who
always maketh
us
to
triumph
in
Christ
Jesus,
and manifesteth
the odour
of
his
knowledge
by
us
in
every
place.
\VS{15}For
we
are
the
good odour
of
Christ unto
God,
in
them
that
are
saved,
and
in
them
that
perish.
\VS{16}To
the
one
indeed
the odour
of
death unto
death:
but
to
the
others
the odour
of
life unto
life.
And
for
these
things
who
is
so
sufficient?
\VS{17}For
we
are
not
as
many, adulterating
the
word
of
God;
but
with
sincerity,
but
as
from
God,
before
God,
in
Christ
we
speak.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Do
we
begin
again
to
commend
ourselves?
Or
do
we
need (as
some
do) epistles
of
commendation
to
you,
or
from
you?
\VS{2}You
are
our epistle,
written
in
our
hearts,
which
is
known
and
read
by
all
men:
\VS{3}Being
manifested,
that
you
are
the epistle
of
Christ,
ministered
by
us,
and
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.
\VS{4}And
such
confidence
we
have,
through
Christ, towards
God.
\VS{5}Not
that
we
are
sufficient
to
think
any thing
of
ourselves,
as
of
ourselves:
but
our sufficiency
is
from
God.
\VS{6}Who
also hath
made
us fit ministers
of
the
new testament,
not
in
the
letter,
but
in
the
spirit.
For
the
letter killeth,
but
the
spirit quickeneth.
\VS{7}Now
if
the ministration
of
death, engraven
with
letters
upon
stones,
was
glorious;
so
that
the children
of
Israel
could
not steadfastly behold
the
face
of
Moses,
for
the
glory
of
his countenance,
which
is
made void:
\VS{8}How shall
not
the ministration
of
the
spirit
be
rather
in
glory?
\VS{9}For
if
the ministration
of
condemnation
be
glory,
much
more
the ministration
of
justice aboundeth
in
glory.
\VS{10}For
even
that
which
was
glorious
in
this
part
was
not
glorified,
by
reason
of
the
glory
that excelleth.
\VS{11}For
if
that
which
is
done
away
was
glorious,
much
more
that
which remaineth
is
in
glory.
\VS{12}Having
therefore
such
hope,
we
use
much
confidence:
\VS{13}And
not
as
Moses
put
a
veil
upon
his
face,
that
the children
of
Israel
might
not steadfastly
look
on
the
face
of
that
which
is
made void.
\VS{14}But
their senses
were made dull.
For,
until
this present
day,
the selfsame
veil,
in
the
reading
of
the
old testament, remaineth
not taken
away (because
in
Christ
it
is made void).
\VS{15}But
even
until
this
day,
when
Moses
is
read,
the
veil
is
upon
their
heart.
\VS{16}But
when
they
shall
be converted
to
the
Lord,
the
veil
shall
be
taken
away.
\VS{17}Now
the
Lord
is
a
Spirit.
And
where
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
is,
there
is
liberty.
\VS{18}But
we
all
beholding
the
glory
of
the
Lord
with open
face,
are
transformed
into
the
same
image
from
glory
to
glory,
as
by
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Therefore, seeing
we
have
this ministration, according
as
we
have
obtained
mercy,
we faint
not;
\VS{2}But
we renounce
the
hidden
things
of dishonesty,
not
walking
in
craftiness,
nor
adulterating
the
word
of
God;
but
by
manifestation
of
the
truth
commending
ourselves
to
every
man’s
conscience,
in
the
sight
of
God.
\VS{3}And
if
our
gospel
be
also hid,
it
is hid
to
them
that
are
lost,
\VS{4}In
whom
the
god
of
this
world hath
blinded
the
minds
of
unbelievers,
that
the
light
of
the
gospel
of
the
glory
of
Christ,
who
is
the
image
of
God,
should
not shine unto
them.
\VS{5}For
we
preach
not
ourselves,
but
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord;
and
ourselves
your
servants
through
Jesus.
\VS{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
Christ
Jesus.
\VS{7}But
we
have
this
treasure
in
earthen
vessels,
that
the excellency
may
be
of
the
power
of
God,
and
not
of
us.
\VS{8}In
all
things we
suffer tribulation,
but
are
not distressed; we
are straitened,
but
are
not destitute;
\VS{9}We suffer persecution,
but are
not
forsaken; we are cast
down,
but we
perish
not:
\VS{10}Always bearing
about
in
our
body
the mortification
of
Jesus,
that
the
life
also
of
Jesus
may
be
made
manifest
in
our
bodies.
\VS{11}For
we
who
live
are
always
delivered unto
death
for
Jesus’
sake;
that
the
life
also
of
Jesus
may
be
made
manifest
in
our
mortal
flesh.
\VS{12}So
then
death worketh
in
us,
but
life
in
you.
\VS{13}But
having
the
same
spirit
of
faith,
as
it
is
written:
I
believed,
for
which cause
I
have
spoken;
we
also
believe,
for
which cause
we
speak
also:
\VS{14}Knowing
that
he
who
raised
up
Jesus,
will
raise
us
up
also
with
Jesus,
and
place
us
with
you.
\VS{15}For
all
things
are
for
your
sakes;
that
the
grace
abounding
through
many,
may
abound
in
thanksgiving unto
the
glory
of
God.
\VS{16}For
which cause
we faint
not;
but
though
our outward
man
is
corrupted,
yet
the inward
man
is
renewed
day
by
day.
\VS{17}For
that
which
is
at
present
momentary
and
light
of
our
tribulation, worketh
for
us above
measure exceedingly
an
eternal
weight
of
glory.
\VS{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.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
we
know,
if
our
earthly
house
of
this habitation
be dissolved,
that
we
have
a
building
of
God,
a
house
not
made
with
hands,
eternal
in
heaven.
\VS{2}For
in
this
also
we
groan, desiring
to
be
clothed
upon
with
our habitation
that
is
from
heaven.
\VS{3}Yet
so
that
we
be
found clothed,
not
naked.
\VS{4}For
we
also,
who
are
in
this tabernacle,
do
groan,
being burthened;
because
we
would
not
be
unclothed,
but
clothed
upon,
that
that
which
is
mortal
may
be
swallowed
up
by
life.
\VS{5}Now
he
that maketh
us
for
this
very
thing,
is
God,
who hath
given
us
the
pledge
of
the
Spirit.
\VS{6}Therefore
having
always
confidence,
knowing
that,
while
we
are
in
the
body,
we
are
absent
from
the
Lord.
\VS{7}(For
we
walk
by
faith,
and
not
by
sight.)
\VS{8}But
we
are confident,
and
have
a
good
will
to
be
absent
rather
from
the
body,
and
to
be present
with
the
Lord.
\VS{9}And
therefore
we labour,
whether
absent
or present,
to please
him.
\VS{10}For
we
must
all
be
manifested
before
the judgement
seat
of
Christ,
that
every
one
may
receive
the proper
things
of
the
body,
according
as
he hath
done,
whether
it
be
good
or
evil.
\VS{11}Knowing
therefore
the
fear
of
the
Lord,
we use persuasion
to
men;
but
to
God
we
are
manifest.
And
I
trust
also
that
in
your
consciences
we
are
manifest.
\VS{12}We
commend
not
ourselves
again
to
you,
but
give
you
occasion
to
glory
in
our
behalf;
that
you
may
have somewhat
to answer
them
who
glory
in
face,
and
not
in
heart.
\VS{13}For
whether we
be transported
in
mind, it
is
to
God;
or
whether we
be sober, it
is
for
you.
\VS{14}For
the charity
of
Christ presseth us:
judging
this,
that
if
one died
for
all,
then
all
were dead.
\VS{15}And
Christ
died
for
all;
that
they
also
who
live,
may
not
now
live
to
themselves,
but unto
him
who
died
for
them,
and
rose
again.
\VS{16}Wherefore henceforth,
we
know
no
man
according
to
the
flesh.
And
if
we
have
known
Christ
according
to
the
flesh;
but
now
we
know
him
so
no
longer.
\VS{17}If
then
any
be
in
Christ
a
new
creature,
the
old
things
are
passed
away,
behold
all
things
are
made
new.
\VS{18}But
all
things
are
of
God,
who hath
reconciled
us
to
himself
by
Christ;
and hath
given
to
us
the
ministry
of
reconciliation.
\VS{19}For
God
indeed
was
in
Christ,
reconciling
the
world
to
himself,
not imputing
to
them
their
sins;
and
he hath
placed
in
us
the
word
of
reconciliation.
\VS{20}For
Christ
therefore
we
are
ambassadors,
God
as
it
were
exhorting
by us.
For
Christ,
we beseech
you,
be
reconciled
to
God.
\VS{21}Him,
who
knew
no
sin,
he hath
made
sin
for
us,
that
we
might
be
made
the
justice
of
God
in
him.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
we helping
do
exhort
you,
that
you
receive
not
the
grace
of
God
in
vain.
\VS{2}For
he saith:
In
an accepted
time
have
I heard thee;
and
in
the
day
of
salvation
have
I
helped thee.
Behold,
now
is
the
acceptable
time;
behold,
now
is
the
day
of
salvation.
\VS{3}Giving
no offence
to
any
man,
that
our
ministry
be
not blamed:
\VS{4}But
in
all
things let
us exhibit
ourselves
as
the ministers
of
God,
in
much
patience,
in
tribulation,
in necessities,
in
distresses,
\VS{5}In stripes,
in
prisons,
in seditions,
in labours,
in watchings,
in
fastings,
\VS{6}In chastity,
in
knowledge,
in longsuffering,
in sweetness,
in
the
Holy Ghost,
in charity unfeigned,
\VS{7}In
the
word
of
truth,
in
the
power
of
God;
by
the armour
of
justice
on
the
right
hand
and
on
the
left;
\VS{8}By honour
and dishonour,
by evil
report
and
good
report;
as
deceivers,
and
yet
true;
as unknown,
and
yet known;
\VS{9}As
dying,
and
behold
we
live;
as chastised,
and
not killed;
\VS{10}As
sorrowful,
yet
always
rejoicing;
as needy,
yet enriching
many;
as
having
nothing,
and
possessing
all
things.
\VS{11}Our
mouth
is
open
to
you, O ye
Corinthians, our
heart
is enlarged.
\VS{12}You
are
not straitened
in
us,
but
in
your own bowels
you
are straitened.
\VS{13}But having
the
same recompense, (I
speak
as
to
my
children,)
be
you
also enlarged.
\VS{14}Bear
not
the yoke
with
unbelievers.
For
what
participation hath
justice
with injustice?
Or
what
fellowship hath
light
with
darkness?
\VS{15}And
what concord hath
Christ
with
Belial?
Or
what
part hath
the
faithful
with
the
unbeliever?
\VS{16}And
what
agreement hath
the
temple
of
God
with
idols?
For
you
are
the
temple
of
the
living
God;
as
God saith:
I
will
dwell
in
them,
and
walk
among
them;
and
I
will
be
their
God,
and
they
shall
be
my
people.
\VS{17}Wherefore,
Go
out
from
among
them,
and
be ye
separate, saith
the
Lord,
and
touch
not
the
unclean
thing:
\VS{18}And
I
will receive
you;
and
I
will
be
a
Father
to
you;
and
you
shall
be
my
sons
and
daughters, saith
the
Lord
Almighty.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Having
therefore
these
promises, dearly
beloved,
let
us
cleanse
ourselves
from
all
defilement
of
the
flesh
and
of
the
spirit,
perfecting sactification
in
the
fear
of
God.
\VS{2}Receive us.
We
have injured
no
man,
we
have
corrupted
no
man,
we
have overreached
no
man.
\VS{3}I
speak
not
this
to
your
condemnation.
For
we
have
said
before,
that
you
are
in
our
hearts,
to
die
together,
and
to
live
together.
\VS{4}Great
is
my
confidence
for
you,
great
is
my glorying
for
you.
I
am
filled
with
comfort:
I exceedingly abound
with
joy
in
all
our
tribulation.
\VS{5}For
also
when
we
were
come
into
Macedonia,
our
flesh
had
no
rest,
but
we suffered
all tribulation; combats
without,
fears
within.
\VS{6}But
God,
who comforteth
the
humble,
comforted
us
by
the
coming
of
Titus.
\VS{7}And
not
by
his
coming
only,
but
also
by
the
consolation, wherewith
he
was
comforted
in
you, relating
to
us
your desire,
your
mourning,
your
zeal
for
me,
so
that
I
rejoiced
the
more.
\VS{8}For
although
I
made
you
sorrowful
by
my epistle,
I
do
not repent;
and
if
I did repent,
seeing
that
the
same epistle (although
but
for
a
time) did
make
you
sorrowful;
\VS{9}Now
I
am
glad:
not
because
you
were
made
sorrowful;
but
because
you
were
made
sorrowful unto penance.
For
you
were
made
sorrowful
according
to
God,
that
you
might
suffer damage
by
us
in
nothing.
\VS{10}For
the
sorrow
that
is
according
to
God worketh penance, steadfast unto
salvation;
but
the
sorrow
of
the
world worketh
death.
\VS{11}For
behold
this selfsame
thing,
that
you
were
made
sorrowful
according
to
God,
how
great carefulness
it worketh
in
you; yea defence, yea
indignation, yea
fear, yea desire, yea
zeal, yea revenge:
in
all
things
you
have shewed
yourselves
to
be undefiled
in
the
matter.
\VS{12}Wherefore
although
I
wrote
to
you,
it
was
not
for
his
sake
that
I
did
the
wrong,
nor
for
him
that suffered
it;
but
to
manifest
our carefulness
that
we
have
for
you
\VS{13}Before
God:
therefore
we
were
comforted.
But
in
our
consolation,
we did
the
more abundantly
rejoice
for
the
joy
of
Titus,
because
his
spirit
was
refreshed
by
you
all.
\VS{14}And
if
I
have
boasted
any
thing
to
him
of
you,
I
have
not
been
put
to
shame;
but
as
we
have
spoken
all
things
to
you
in
truth,
so
also
our
boasting
that
was
made
to
Titus
is
found
a
truth.
\VS{15}And
his bowels
are
more abundantly towards
you; remembering
the
obedience
of
you
all,
how
with
fear
and
trembling
you
have
received
him.
\VS{16}I
rejoice
that
in
all
things
I
have
confidence
in
you.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
we
make
known unto
you,
brethren,
the
grace
of
God,
that hath been
given
in
the
churches
of
Macedonia.
\VS{2}That
in
much experience
of
tribulation,
they
have
had
abundance
of
joy;
and
their
very
deep
poverty hath
abounded unto
the
riches
of
their
simplicity.
\VS{3}For
according
to
their
power (I
bear
them
witness),
and
beyond
their
power,
they
were willing.
\VS{4}With
much entreaty
begging
of
us
the
grace
and communication
of
the
ministry
that
is done
toward
the
saints.
\VS{5}And
not
as
we
hoped,
but
they
gave
their
own selves
first
to
the
Lord,
then
to
us
by
the
will
of
God:
\VS{6}Insomuch,
that
we desired
Titus,
that
as
he
had begun,
so
also
he
would
finish
among
you
this
same
grace.
\VS{7}That
as
in
all
things
you
abound
in
faith,
and
word,
and
knowledge,
and
all carefulness; moreover
also
in
your charity towards
us,
so
in
this
grace
also
you
may
abound.
\VS{8}I
speak
not
as commanding;
but
by
the carefulness
of
others, approving
also
the good disposition
of
your charity.
\VS{9}For
you
know
the
grace
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
that
being
rich
he
became poor,
for
your
sakes;
that
through
his
poverty
you
might
be
rich.
\VS{10}And herein
I
give
my advice;
for
this
is
profitable
for
you,
who
have begun
not
only
to
do,
but
also
to
be
willing,
a
year
ago.
\VS{11}Now
therefore
perform ye
it
also
in deed;
that
as
your
mind
is forward
to
be
willing,
so
it
may
be
also
to
perform,
out
of
that
which
you
have.
\VS{12}For
if
the
will
be forward,
it
is accepted
according
to
that
which
a man hath,
not
according
to
that
which
he hath
not.
\VS{13}For
I mean
not
that
others
should
be eased,
and
you burthened,
but
by an
equality.
\VS{14}In
this
present
time
let
your
abundance supply
their want,
that
their
abundance
also
may supply
your want,
that
there
may
be
an
equality,
\VS{15}As
it
is
written:
He
that
had
much,
had
nothing over;
and
he
that
had
little,
had
no want.
\VS{16}And
thanks
be
to
God,
who hath
given
the
same carefulness
for
you
in
the
heart
of
Titus.
\VS{17}For
indeed
he
accepted
the
exhortation;
but
being more careful,
of
his
own
will
he
went unto
you.
\VS{18}We
have
sent
also
with
him
the
brother,
whose
praise
is
in
the
gospel
through
all
the
churches.
\VS{19}And
not
that
only,
but
he
was
also ordained
by
the
churches companion
of
our travels,
for
this
grace,
which
is
administered
by us,
to
the
glory
of
the
Lord,
and
our determined
will:
\VS{20}Avoiding
this,
lest
any
man
should blame
us
in
this abundance
which
is
administered
by
us.
\VS{21}For
we forecast
what
may
be
good
not
only
before God,
but
also
before
men.
\VS{22}And
we
have
sent
with
them
our
brother
also,
whom
we
have
often proved
diligent
in
many
things;
but
now
much
more
diligent,
with
much
confidence
in
you,
\VS{23}Either
for
Titus,
who
is
my companion
and
fellow labourer towards
you,
or
our
brethren,
the
apostles
of
the
churches,
the
glory
of
Christ.
\VS{24}Wherefore shew ye
to
them,
in
the
sight
of
the
churches,
the evidence
of
your charity,
and
of
our
boasting
on
your
behalf.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}For
concerning
the
ministry
that
is done towards
the
saints,
it
is
superfluous
for
me
to
write unto
you.
\VS{2}For
I
know
your forward
mind:
for
which
I
boast
of
you
to
the
Macedonians.
That
Achaia
also
is ready
from
the
year past,
and
your emulation hath provoked
very
many.
\VS{3}Now
I
have
sent
the
brethren,
that
the
thing
which
we
boast
of
concerning
you,
be
not
made
void
in
this
behalf,
that (as
I
have
said)
you
may
be ready:
\VS{4}Lest,
when
the
Macedonians
shall
come
with
me,
and
find
you
unprepared,
we (not
to
say ye)
should
be ashamed
in
this matter.
\VS{5}Therefore
I
thought
it
necessary
to desire
the
brethren
that
they
would
go
to
you
before,
and prepare
this
blessing
before
promised,
to
be
ready,
so
as
a
blessing,
not
as
covetousness.
\VS{6}Now
this
I say:
He
who soweth
sparingly,
shall
also
reap
sparingly:
and
he
who soweth
in blessings,
shall
also
reap blessings.
\VS{7}Every
one
as
he hath determined
in
his
heart,
not
with
sadness,
or
of
necessity:
for
God loveth
a
cheerful
giver.
\VS{8}And
God
is
able
to
make
all
grace
abound
in
you;
that ye
always,
having
all
sufficiency
in
all
things,
may
abound
to
every
good
work,
\VS{9}As
it
is
written:
He hath dispersed abroad,
he hath
given
to
the
poor:
his
justice remaineth
for
ever.
\VS{10}And
he
that ministereth
seed
to
the
sower,
will
both
give
you
bread
to eat,
and
will
multiply
your
seed,
and
increase
the
growth
of
the fruits
of
your
justice:
\VS{11}That being
enriched
in
all
things,
you
may abound unto
all
simplicity,
which worketh
through
us
thanksgiving
to
God.
\VS{12}Because
the administration
of
this office doth
not
only supply
the want
of
the
saints,
but aboundeth
also
by
many
thanksgivings
in
the
Lord,
\VS{13}By
the
proof
of
this
ministry,
glorifying
God
for
the
obedience
of
your
confession unto
the
gospel
of
Christ,
and
for
the
simplicity
of
your communicating unto
them,
and unto
all.
\VS{14}And
in
their praying
for
you,
being desirous
of
you,
because
of
the excellent
grace
of
God
in
you.
\VS{15}Thanks
be
to
God
for
his unspeakable
gift.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
I
Paul
myself beseech
you,
by
the mildness
and modesty
of
Christ,
who
in
presence
indeed
am
lowly
among
you,
but
being
absent,
am
bold
toward
you.
\VS{2}But
I beseech
you,
that
I
may
not
be
bold
when
I
am
present,
with
that
confidence wherewith
I
am thought
to
be
bold,
against
some,
who reckon
us
as
if
we
walked
according
to
the
flesh.
\VS{3}For
though we
walk
in
the
flesh, we
do
not
war
according
to
the
flesh.
\VS{4}For
the
weapons
of
our
warfare
are
not carnal,
but
mighty
to
God unto
the pulling
down
of fortifications,
destroying counsels,
\VS{5}And
every
height
that exhalteth itself
against
the
knowledge
of
God,
and bringing
into captivity
every
understanding unto
the
obedience
of
Christ;
\VS{6}And
having
in readiness
to
revenge
all
disobedience,
when
your
obedience
shall
be
fulfilled.
\VS{7}See
the
things
that
are
according
to
outward
appearance.
If
any
man
trust
to
himself,
that
he
is
Christ’s,
let
him
think
this
again
with
himself,
that
as
he
is
Christ’s,
so
are
we
also.
\VS{8}For
if
also
I
should
boast
somewhat
more
of
our
power,
which
the
Lord hath
given
us unto
edification,
and
not
for
your
destruction,
I
should
not
be
ashamed.
\VS{9}But
that
I
may
not
be
thought
as
it
were
to
terrify
you
by epistles,
\VS{10}(For
his epistles
indeed,
say
they,
are
weighty
and
strong;
but
his bodily
presence
is
weak,
and
his
speech
contemptible,)
\VS{11}Let
such
a
one
think
this,
that
such
as
we
are
in
word
by epistles,
when
absent,
such
also
we
will
be
indeed
when
present.
\VS{12}For
we
dare
not match,
or
compare
ourselves
with
some,
that
commend
themselves;
but
we
measure
ourselves
by
ourselves,
and
compare
ourselves
with
ourselves.
\VS{13}But
we
will
not
glory
beyond
our
measure;
but
according
to
the
measure
of
the
rule,
which
God hath measured
to
us,
a
measure
to
reach
even unto
you.
\VS{14}For
we stretch
not
ourselves
beyond
our measure,
as
if
we
reached
not unto
you.
For
we
are
come
as
far
as
to
you
in
the
gospel
of
Christ.
\VS{15}Not glorying
beyond
measure
in
other
men’s labours;
but
having
hope
of
your
increasing
faith,
to
be
magnified
in
you
according
to
our
rule abundantly;
\VS{16}Yea, unto
those places
that
are
beyond
you,
to
preach
the
gospel,
not
to
glory
in
another
man’s
rule,
in
those
things
that
are made
ready
to
our hand.
\VS{17}But
he
that glorieth, let
him
glory
in
the
Lord.
\VS{18}For
not
he
who commendeth
himself,
is
approved,
but
he,
whom God commendeth.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Would
to God
you could
bear
with
some
little
of
my folly:
but
do
bear
with
me.
\VS{2}For
I
am
jealous
of
you
with
the
jealousy
of
God.
For
I
have espoused
you
to
one
husband
that
I
may
present
you
as
a
chaste
virgin
to
Christ.
\VS{3}But
I
fear
lest,
as
the
serpent seduced
Eve
by
his subtilty,
so
your
minds
should
be
corrupted,
and fall
from
the
simplicity
that
is
in
Christ.
\VS{4}For
if
he
that cometh preacheth
another Christ,
whom
we
have
not
preached;
or
if
you
receive
another
Spirit,
whom
you
have
not
received;
or
another
gospel
which
you
have
not
received;
you might
well
bear
with
him.
\VS{5}For
I
suppose
that
I
have done
nothing less than
the great
apostles.
\VS{6}For
although
I
be rude
in
speech,
yet
not
in
knowledge;
but
in
all
things
we
have
been
made
manifest
to
you.
\VS{7}Or
did
I
commit
a fault,
humbling
myself,
that
you
might
be
exalted?
Because
I
preached unto
you
the
gospel
of
God
freely?
\VS{8}I
have
taken
from
other
churches,
receiving
wages
of
them
for
your
ministry.
\VS{9}And,
when
I
was
present
with
you,
and wanted,
I
was chargeable
to no
man:
for
that
which
was wanting
to
me,
the
brethren
supplied
who
came
from
Macedonia;
and
in
all
things
I
have
kept
myself
from
being burthensome
to
you,
and
so
I
will
keep
myself.
\VS{10}The
truth
of
Christ
is
in
me,
that
this glorying
shall
not
be broken off
in
me
in
the
regions
of
Achaia.
\VS{11}Wherefore?
Because
I
love
you
not?
God knoweth
it.
\VS{12}But
what
I
do,
that
I
will
do,
that
I
may
cut
off
the
occasion
from
them
that
desire
occasion,
that wherein
they
glory,
they
may
be
found
even
as
we.
\VS{13}For
such
false
apostles
are
deceitful
workmen, transforming
themselves
into
the
apostles
of
Christ.
\VS{14}And
no
wonder:
for
Satan
himself transformeth
himself
into
an
angel
of
light.
\VS{15}Therefore
it
is
no
great
thing
if
his ministers
be transformed
as
the ministers
of
justice,
whose
end
shall
be
according
to
their
works.
\VS{16}I
say
again, (let
no
man
think
me
to
be
foolish,
otherwise
take
me
as
one
foolish,
that
I
also
may
glory
a
little.)
\VS{17}That
which
I
speak,
I
speak
not
according
to
God,
but
as
it
were
in
foolishness,
in
this matter
of glorying.
\VS{18}Seeing
that
many
glory
according
to
the
flesh,
I
will
glory
also.
\VS{19}For
you
gladly suffer
the
foolish; whereas yourselves
are
wise.
\VS{20}For
you suffer
if
a
man
bring
you
into
bondage,
if
a
man
devour
you,
if
a
man
take
from
you,
if
a
man
be
lifted
up,
if
a
man
strike
you
on
the
face.
\VS{21}I
speak
according
to dishonour,
as
if
we
had
been
weak
in
this
part. Wherein
if
any
man
dare (I
speak
foolishly),
I
dare
also.
\VS{22}They
are
Hebrews:
so
am
I.
They
are
Israelites:
so
am
I.
They
are
the
seed
of
Abraham:
so
am
I.
\VS{23}They
are
the ministers
of
Christ (I
speak
as one less wise).
I
am
more;
in
many
more labours,
in
prisons
more frequently,
in stripes
above measure,
in deaths
often.
\VS{24}Of
the
Jews
five
times did
I
receive
forty stripes, save
one.
\VS{25}Thrice
was
I
beaten
with
rods,
once
I
was
stoned, thrice
I
suffered
shipwreck,
a
night
and
a
day
I
was
in
the depth
of
the sea.
\VS{26}In journeying
often,
in perils
of waters,
in perils
of
robbers,
in perils
from
my own
nation,
in perils
from
the
Gentiles,
in perils
in
the
city,
in perils
in
the
wilderness,
in perils
in
the
sea,
in perils
from
false
brethren.
\VS{27}In labour
and painfulness,
in much watchings,
in
hunger
and
thirst,
in
fastings
often,
in
cold
and
nakedness.
\VS{28}Besides
those
things
which
are
without:
my
daily instance,
the solicitude
for
all
the
churches.
\VS{29}Who
is
weak,
and
I
am
not
weak?
Who
is scandalized,
and
I
am
not
on fire?
\VS{30}If
I
must needs
glory,
I
will
glory
of
the
things
that concern
my
infirmity.
\VS{31}The
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
who
is
blessed
for
ever, knoweth
that
I
lie
not.
\VS{32}At
Damascus,
the governor
of
the nation
under
Aretas
the
king, guarded
the
city
of
the
Damascenes,
to apprehend
me.
\VS{33}And
through
a
window
in
a
basket
was
I
let
down
by
the
wall,
and
so
escaped
his
hands.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}If
I
must
glory (it
is
not expedient
indeed),
but
I
will
come
to
visions
and
revelations
of
the
Lord.
\VS{2}I
know
a
man
in
Christ
above
fourteen
years
ago (whether
in
the
body,
I
know
not,
or
out
of
the
body,
I
know
not;
God knoweth),
such
a
one
caught
up
to
the
third
heaven.
\VS{3}And
I
know
such
a
man (whether
in
the
body,
or out
of
the
body,
I
know
not:
God knoweth),
\VS{4}That
he
was
caught
up
into
paradise,
and
heard secret
words,
which
it
is
not granted
to
man
to utter.
\VS{5}For
such
an
one
I
will
glory;
but
for
myself
I
will
glory
nothing,
but
in
my
infirmities.
\VS{6}For
though
I
should
have
a mind
to
glory,
I
shall
not
be
foolish;
for
I
will
say
the
truth.
But
I forbear,
lest
any
man
should
think
of
me
above
that
which
he seeth
in
me,
or
any
thing
he heareth
from
me.
\VS{7}And
lest
the
greatness
of
the
revelations
should exalt
me, there
was
given
me
a sting
of
my
flesh,
an
angel
of
Satan,
to buffet
me.
\VS{8}For
which
thing thrice
I besought
the
Lord,
that
it
might
depart
from
me.
\VS{9}And
he
said
to
me:
My
grace
is
sufficient
for thee;
for
power
is
made perfect
in
infirmity.
Gladly
therefore
will
I
glory
in
my
infirmities,
that
the
power
of
Christ
may
dwell
in
me.
\VS{10}For
which cause
I please myself
in
my
infirmities,
in reproaches,
in necessities,
in
persecutions,
in
distresses,
for
Christ.
For
when
I
am
weak,
then
am
I
powerful.
\VS{11}I
am
become
foolish:
you
have
compelled
me.
For
I
ought
to
have
been
commended
by
you:
for
I
have
no way
come
short
of
them
that
are above measure
apostles,
although
I
be
nothing.
\VS{12}Yet
the
signs
of
my apostleship
have
been wrought
on
you,
in
all
patience,
in
signs,
and
wonders,
and
mighty deeds.
\VS{13}For
what
is
there
that
you
have
had
less
than
the
other
churches,
but
that
I
myself
was
not burthensome
to
you? Pardon
me
this injury.
\VS{14}Behold
now
the
third
time
I
am
ready
to
come
to
you;
and
I
will
not
be burthensome unto
you.
For
I
seek
not
the
things
that
are
yours,
but
you.
For
neither
ought
the
children
to lay
up
for
the
parents,
but
the
parents
for
the
children.
\VS{15}But
I
most
gladly
will
spend
and
be
spent
myself
for
your
souls;
although loving
you
more,
I
be
loved
less.
\VS{16}But
be
it
so:
I
did
not burthen
you:
but
being
crafty,
I
caught
you
by guile.
\VS{17}Did
I overreach
you
by
any
of
them
whom
I
sent
to
you?
\VS{18}I desired
Titus,
and
I
sent
with
him
a
brother.
Did
Titus overreach
you?
Did
we
not
walk
with
the
same
spirit?
did
we
not
in
the
same
steps?
\VS{19}Of old,
think
you
that
we excuse ourselves
to
you?
We
speak
before
God
in
Christ;
but
all
things,
my dearly
beloved,
for
your
edification.
\VS{20}For
I
fear
lest perhaps
when
I
come
I shall
not
find
you
such
as
I
would,
and
that
I shall
be
found
by
you
such
as
you
would
not.
Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions,
be among
you.
\VS{21}Lest
again,
when
I
come,
God
humble
me
among
you:
and
I
mourn
many
of
them
that
sinned
before,
and
have
not
done penance
for
the
uncleanness,
and
fornication,
and lasciviousness,
that
they
have
committed.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Behold,
this
is
the
third
time
I
am
coming
to
you:
In
the
mouth
of
two
or
three
witnesses
shall
every
word
stand.
\VS{2}I
have told
before,
and foretell,
as
present,
and
now
absent,
to
them
that
sinned
before,
and
to
all
the
rest,
that
if
I
come
again,
I
will
not
spare.
\VS{3}Do
you
seek
a
proof
of
Christ
that speaketh
in
me,
who towards
you
is
not
weak,
but
is
mighty
in
you?
\VS{4}For
although
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 towards
you.
\VS{5}Try
your
own selves
if
you
be
in
the
faith; prove ye
yourselves.
Know
you
not
your
own selves,
that
Christ
Jesus
is
in
you,
unless
perhaps
you
be reprobates?
\VS{6}But
I
trust
that
you shall
know
that
we
are
not reprobates.
\VS{7}Now
we
pray
God,
that
you
may
do
no
evil,
not
that
we
may
appear
approved,
but
that
you
may
do
that
which
is
good,
and
that
we
may
be
as reprobates.
\VS{8}For
we
can
do
nothing
against
the
truth;
but
for
the
truth.
\VS{9}For
we
rejoice
that
we
are
weak,
and
you
are
strong.
This
also
we
pray
for,
your perfection.
\VS{10}Therefore
I
write
these
things, being
absent,
that, being
present,
I
may
not deal
more
severely,
according
to
the
power
which
the
Lord hath
given
me unto
edification,
and
not unto
destruction.
\VS{11}For
the
rest,
brethren,
rejoice,
be
perfect, take exhortation,
be
of
one
mind,
have
peace;
and
the
God
of
peace
and
of
love
shall
be
with
you.
\VS{12}Salute
one
another
with
a
holy
kiss.
All
the
saints salute
you.
\VS{13}The
grace
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
and
the charity
of
God,
and
the communication
of
the
Holy Ghost
be
with
you
all. Amen.
\par }