For you put up with ¹  it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly ²  toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,

If I must boast, ¹  I will boast about the things that show my weakness. ² 

if indeed, after we have put on ¹  our heavenly house, ²  we will not be found naked.

For if what was made ineffective ¹  came with ²  glory, how much more has what remains ³  come in glory!

But if we are afflicted, ¹  it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him – for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, ¹  how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness ²  excel ³  in glory!

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself ¹  is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) ¹  he has saddened all of you as well.

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away ¹  – look, what is new ²  has come! ³ 

If there is any question ¹  about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers ²  of the churches, a glory to Christ.

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

For this reason also I wrote you: ¹  to test you to see ²  if you are obedient in everything.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! ¹  If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. ¹  But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

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, ¹