But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

But <b><i>the one who boasts must boast in the Lordi>b>.<n id="1" />

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?

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose<n id="1" /> is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.<n id="2" />

But God, who encourages<n id="1" /> the downhearted, encouraged<n id="2" /> us by the arrival of Titus.

as it is written: &#8220;<b><i>The one who gatheredi>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>much did not have too muchb>, <b>and the one who gatheredb>i> <b><i>little did not have too littlei>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously<n id="1" /> will also reap generously.

For it is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person the Lord commends.p>

For if someone comes and proclaims<n id="1" /> another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed,<n id="2" /> or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received,<n id="3" /> or a different gospel than the one you accepted,<n id="4" /> you put up with it well enough!<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Blessed is<n id="1" /> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

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.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

But it is God who establishes<n id="1" /> us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,<n id="2" />

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present,<n id="1" /> there is freedom.

As a result,<n id="1" /> death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.<n id="2" />

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!<n id="1" />

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself<n id="1" /> as an angel of light.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us &#8211; by me and Silvanus<n id="1" /> and Timothy &#8211; was not &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No,&#8221; but it has always been &#8220;Yes&#8221; in him.

For God, who said &#8220;<i>Let light shine out of darknessi>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge<n id="2" /> of God in the face of Christ.<n id="3" />p>

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.<n id="1" />p>