But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.

Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,

I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia.

always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing –

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

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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.

For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

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 –

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!”

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

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

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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.