I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I? ¹ 

Make room for us in your hearts; ¹  we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, ²  we have exploited no one. ³ 

Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness, ¹ 

We have spoken freely to you, ¹  Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide to you.

And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test! ¹ 

For the love of Christ ¹  controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ ²  died for all; therefore all have died.

as it is written: “The one who gathered ¹  much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” ² 

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 ¹  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

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,

Have you been thinking all this time ¹  that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up. ² 

Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, ¹  we do not become discouraged. ² 

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

I am afraid that ¹  when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for ²  many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit. ¹ 

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, ¹  but just as everything we said to you was true, ²  so our boasting to Titus about you ³  has proved true as well.

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

And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? ¹  Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

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 we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power ¹  belongs to God and does not come from us.