God<n id="1" /> made the one who did not know sin<n id="2" /> to be sin for us, so that in him<n id="3" /> we would become the righteousness of God.p>

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband,<n id="1" /> to present you as a pure<n id="2" /> virgin to Christ.

was caught up into paradise<n id="1" /> and heard things too sacred to be put into words,<n id="2" /> things that a person<n id="3" /> is not permitted to speak.

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?

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.<n id="1" />

We are not trying to commend<n id="1" /> ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us,<n id="2" /> so that you may be able to answer those who take pride<n id="3" /> in outward appearance<n id="4" /> and not in what is in the heart.

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves<n id="1" /> from everything that could defile the body<n id="2" /> and the spirit, and thus accomplish<n id="3" /> holiness out of reverence for God.<n id="4" />

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body<n id="1" /> had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way &#8211; struggles from the outside, fears from within.

For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated<n id="1" /> (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.<n id="2" />

And God is able to make all grace overflow<n id="1" /> to you so that because you have enough<n id="2" /> of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow<n id="3" /> in every good work.

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison<n id="1" /> to those &#8220;super-apostles,&#8221; even though I am nothing.

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He<n id="1" /> is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

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" />

And I wrote this very thing to you,<n id="1" /> so that when I came<n id="2" /> I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.<n id="1" />

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are<n id="1" /> the temple of the living God, just as God said, &#8220;<b><i>I will live in themi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>and will walk among themb>, <b>and I will be their Godb>, <b>and they will be my peopleb>i>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you,<n id="1" /> but just as everything we said to you was true,<n id="2" /> so our boasting to Titus about you<n id="3" /> has proved true as well.