Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.<n id="1" />

This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

so that we may not be exploited<n id="1" /> by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).

In addition,<n id="1" /> this brother<n id="2" /> has also been chosen by the churches as our traveling companion as we administer this generous gift<n id="3" /> to the glory of the Lord himself and to show our readiness to help.<n id="4" />

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back<n id="1" /> to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

You yourselves are our letter,<n id="1" /> written on our hearts, known and read by everyone,

We did this<n id="1" /> as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

<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.

who comforts us in all our troubles<n id="1" /> so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble<n id="2" /> with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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 we groan while we are in this tent,<n id="1" /> since we are weighed down,<n id="2" /> because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.