Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! ¹ 

Blessed is ¹  the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, ¹  but we are speaking in Christ before ²  God as persons of sincerity, ³  as persons sent from God.

For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea ¹  through us. We plead with you ²  on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! ¹ 

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are ¹  the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them ²  and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” ³ 

God ¹  made the one who did not know sin ²  to be sin for us, so that in him ³  we would become the righteousness of God.

Grace and peace to you ¹  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

But it is God who establishes ¹  us together with you in Christ and who anointed us, ² 

But God, who encourages ¹  the downhearted, encouraged ²  us by the arrival of Titus.

From Paul, ¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, ²  with all the saints who are in all Achaia. ³ 

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe ¹  so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel ²  of Christ, ³  who is the image of God.

For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” ¹  is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge ²  of God in the face of Christ. ³ 

Now I appeal to God as my witness, ¹  that to spare ²  you I did not come again to Corinth. ³ 

Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, ¹  the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,

But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion ¹  I have for you,

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