For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?

For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it (even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time).

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless, indeed, you fail the test!

For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

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.

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away – look, what is new has come!

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.

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him – for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

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

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.

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.