for we live by faith, not by sight.

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).

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily,

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

But he said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,

So they glorified God because of me.

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

for we are members of his body.

Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

Nevertheless, you did well to share with me in my trouble.