Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

If there is any question about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

Just as it is written, “He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.”

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.

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

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.”

Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.