And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

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

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord –

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.