For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men.

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

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

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.

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

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

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.