For you put up with<n id="1" /> it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly<n id="2" /> toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

if indeed, after we have put on<n id="1" /> our heavenly house,<n id="2" /> we will not be found naked.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad<n id="1" /> but the one I caused to be sad?

For even if I made you sad<n id="1" /> by my letter,<n id="2" /> I do not regret having written it<n id="3" /> (even though I did regret it,<n id="4" /> for<n id="5" /> I see that my letter made you sad,<n id="6" /> 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 &#8211; unless, indeed, you fail the test!<n id="1" />

For if what was made ineffective<n id="1" /> came with<n id="2" /> glory, how much more has what remains<n id="3" /> come in glory!

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself<n id="1" /> is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

If I must boast,<n id="1" /> I will boast about the things that show my weakness.<n id="2" />

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate)<n id="1" /> he has saddened all of you as well.

For this reason also I wrote you:<n id="1" /> to test you to see<n id="2" /> if you are obedient in everything.

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation,<n id="1" /> how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness<n id="2" /> excel<n id="3" /> 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<n id="1" /> &#8211; look, what is new<n id="2" /> has come!<n id="3" />

And even if I am unskilled<n id="1" /> 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!<n id="1" /> If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him &#8211; 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,<n id="1" /> but even if our physical body<n id="2" /> is wearing away, our inner person<n id="3" /> is being renewed day by day.

So then from now on we acknowledge<n id="1" /> no one from an outward human point of view.<n id="2" /> Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view,<n id="3" /> now we do not know him in that way any longer.

You are looking at outward appearances.<n id="1" /> 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.