And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

We are also ready to punish every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

But as you excel in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, and in all eagerness and in the love from us that is in you – make sure that you excel in this act of kindness too.

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,

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

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel.

Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.