Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

For indeed he was crucified by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,