Each one of you should give<n id="1" /> just as he has decided in his heart,<n id="2" /> not reluctantly<n id="3" /> or under compulsion,<n id="4" /> because God loves a cheerful giver.

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" />

that during a severe ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth<n id="1" /> of their generosity.

For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself<n id="1" /> so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed<n id="2" /> the gospel of God to you free of charge?

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing &#8211;

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.<n id="1" />

For how<n id="1" /> were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

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.

and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites<n id="1" /> from staring<n id="2" /> at the result<n id="3" /> of the glory that was made ineffective.<n id="4" />

Let such a person consider this: What we say<n id="1" /> by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.p>

But I am afraid that<n id="1" /> just as the serpent<n id="2" /> deceived Eve by his treachery,<n id="3" /> your minds may be led astray<n id="4" /> from a sincere and pure<n id="5" /> devotion to Christ.

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

He<n id="1" /> delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> he will deliver us yet again,

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).

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

When<n id="1" /> I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs.<n id="2" /> I<n id="3" /> kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

<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.

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you<n id="1" /> made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,