<t /><p class="bodytext">For it is not necessary<n id="1" /> for me to write you about this service<n id="2" /> to the saints,

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 the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons,<n id="1" /> but are made powerful by God<n id="2" /> for tearing down strongholds.<n id="3" /> We tear down arguments<n id="4" />

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.

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.

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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Paul,<n id="1" /> an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth,<n id="2" /> with all the saints who are in all Achaia.<n id="3" />

revealing<n id="1" /> that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us,<n id="2" /> written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not <i>on stone tabletsi><n id="3" /> but on tablets of human hearts.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" />

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.

I said before when I was present the second time and now, though absent, I say again to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone,<n id="1" />

<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,

as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God<n id="1" /> on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.p>

For we do not write you anything other than what<n id="1" /> you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely<n id="2" />

For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including<n id="1" /> more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase<n id="2" /> to the glory of God.

because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.p>

For he says, &#8220;<i><b>I heard you at the acceptable timeb>, <b>and in the day of salvation I helped youb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Look, now is <b><i>the acceptable timei>b>; look, now is <b><i>the day of salvationi>b>!

Therefore &#8220;<i><b>come out from their midstb>, <b>and be separateb>i>,&#8221; says the Lord, &#8220;<i><b>and touch no unclean thingb>,i><n id="1" /> <i>and I will welcomei><n id="2" /> <i>youi>,<n id="3" />

<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.