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

so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.

Now when I arrived in Troas to proclaim the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord had opened a door of opportunity for me,

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

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

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

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

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 –

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

by truthful teaching, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness both for the right hand and for the left,

as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

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.

Therefore show them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you.

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.