RGIVE HIM, AND COMFORT HIM, LEST PERHAPS SUCH A ONE SHOULD BE SWALLOWED UP WITH OVERMUCH SORROW. # 8 WHEREFORE I BESEECH YOU THAT YE WOULD CONFIRM YOUR LOVE TOWARD HIM. # 9 FOR TO THIS END ALSO DID I WRITE, THAT I MIGHT KNOW THE PROOF OF YOU, WHETHER YE BE OBEDIENT IN ALL THINGS. # 10 TO WHOM YE FORGIVE ANY THING, I FORGIVE ALSO: FOR IF I FORGAVE ANY THING, TO WHOM I FORGAVE IT, FOR YOUR SAKES FORGAVE I IT IN THE PERSON OF CHRIST; # 11 LEST SATAN SHOULD GET AN ADVANTAGE OF US: FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF HIS DEVICES. # 12 FURTHERMORE, WHEN I CAME TO TROAS TO PREACH CHRISTS GOSPEL, AND A DOOR WAS OPENED UNTO ME OF THE LORD, # 13 I HAD NO REST IN MY SPIRIT, BECAUSE I FOUND NOT TITUS MY BROTHER: BUT TAKING MY LEAVE OF THEM, I WENT FROM THENCE INTO MACEDONIA. # 14 NOW THANKS BE UNTO GOD, WHICH ALWAYS CAUSETH US TO TRIUMPH IN CHRIST, AND MAKETH MANIFEST THE SAVOUR OF HIS KNOWLEDGE BY US IN EVERY PLACE. # 15 FOR WE ARE UNTO GOD A SWEET SAVOUR OF CHRIST, IN THEM THAT ARE SAVED, AND IN THEM THAT PERISH: # 16 TO THE ONE WE ARE THE SAVOUR OF DEATH UNTO DEATH; AND TO THE OTHER THE SAVOUR OF LIFE UNTO LIFE. AND WHO IS SUFFICIENT FOR THESE THINGS? # 17 FOR WE ARE NOT AS MANY, WHICH CORRUPT THE WORD OF GOD: BUT AS OF SINCERITY, BUT AS OF GOD, IN THE SIGHT OF GOD SPEAK WE IN CHRIST. = CHAPTER 3 # 1 DO WE BEGIN AGAIN TO COMMEND OURSELVES? OR NEED WE, AS SOME OTHERS, EPISTLES OF COMMENDATION TO YOU, OR LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM YOU? # 2 YE ARE OUR EPISTLE WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS, KNOWN AND READ OF ALL MEN: # 3 FORASMUCH AS YE ARE MANIFESTLY DECLARED TO BE THE EPISTLE OF CHRIST MINISTERED BY US, WRITTEN NOT WITH INK, BUT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD; NOT IN TABLES OF STONE, BUT IN FLESHY TABLES OF THE HEART. # 4 AND SUCH TRUST HAVE WE THROUGH CHRIST TO GOD-WARD: # 5 NOT THAT WE ARE SUFFICIENT OF OURSELVES TO THINK ANY THING AS OF OURSELVES; BUT OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD; # 6 WHO ALSO HATH MADE US ABLE MINISTERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; NOT OF THE LETTER, BUT OF THE SPIRIT: FOR THE LETTER KILLETH, BUT THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE. # 7 BUT IF THE MINISTRATION OF DEATH, WRITTEN AND ENGRAVEN IN STONES, WAS GLORIOUS, SO THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COULD NOT STEDFASTLY BEHOLD THE FACE OF MOSES FOR THE GLORY OF HIS COUNTENANCE; WHICH GLORY WAS TO BE DONE AWAY: # 8 HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS? # 9 FOR IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION BE GLORY, MUCH MORE DOTH THE MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEED IN GLORY. # 10 FOR EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY IN THIS RESPECT, BY REASON OF THE GLORY THAT EXCELLETH. # 11 FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY WAS GLORIOUS, MUCH MORE THAT WHICH REMAINETH IS GLORIOUS. # 12 SEEING THEN THAT WE HAVE SUCH HOPE, WE USE GREAT PLAINNESS OF SPEECH: # 13 AND NOT AS MOSES, WHICH PUT A VAIL OVER HIS FACE, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COULD NOT STEDFASTLY LOOK TO THE END OF THAT WHICH IS ABOLISHED: # 14 BUT THEIR MINDS WERE BLINDED: FOR UNTIL THIS DAY REMAINETH THE SAME VAIL UNTAKEN AWAY IN THE READING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; WHICH VAIL IS DONE AWAY IN CHRIST. # 15 BUT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEN MOSES IS READ, THE VAIL IS UPON THEIR HEART. # 16 NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD, THE VAIL SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY. # 17 NOW THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT: AND WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY. # 18 BUT WE ALL, WITH OPEN FACE BEHOLDING AS IN A GLASS THE GLORY OF THE LORD, ARE CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE FROM GLORY TO GLORY, EVEN AS BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. = CHAPTER 4 # 1 THEREFORE SEEING WE HAVE THIS MINISTRY, AS WE HAVE RECEIVED MERCY, WE FAINT NOT; # 2 BUT HAVE RENOUNCED THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DISHONESTY, NOT WALKING IN CRAFTINESS, NOR HANDLING THE WORD OF GOD DECEITFULLY; BUT BY MANIFESTATION OF THE TRUTH COMMENDING OURSELVES TO EVERY MANS CONSCIENCE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. # 3 BUT IF OUR GOSPEL BE HID, IT IS HID TO THEM THAT ARE LOST: # 4 IN WHOM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD HATH BLINDED THE MINDS OF THEM WHICH BELIEVE NOT, LEST THE LIGHT OF THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF CHRIST, WHO IBOOK47BIB[.050044]BOOK47.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES UNTO THEM; AND HATH COMMITTED UNTO US THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION. # 20 NOW THEN WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, AS THOUGH GOD DID BESEECH YOU BY US: WE PRAY YOU IN CHRISTS STEAD, BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD. # 21 FOR HE HATH MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN; THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM. = CHAPTER 6 # 1 WE THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM, BESEECH YOU ALSO THAT YE RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN. # 2 (FOR HE SAITH, I HAVE HEARD THEE IN A TIME ACCEPTED, AND IN THE DAY OF SALVATION HAVE I SUCCOURED THEE: BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; BEHOLD, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.) # 3 GIVING NO OFFENCE IN ANY THING, THAT THE MINISTRY BE NOT BLAMED: IT # 4 BUT IN ALL THINGS APPROVING OURSELVES AS THE MINISTERS OF GOD, IN MUCH PATIENCE, IN AFFLICTIONS, IN NECESSITIES, IN DISTRESSES, # 5 IN STRIPES, IN IMPRISONMENTS, IN TUMULTS, IN LABOURS, IN WATCHINGS, IN FASTINGS; # 6 BY PURENESS, BY KNOWLEDGE, BY LONG SUFFERING, BY KINDNESS, BY THE HOLY GHOST, BY LOVE UNFEIGNED, # 7 BY THE WORD OF TRUTH, BY THE POWER OF GOD, BY THE ARMOUR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ON THE RIGHT HAND AND ON THE LEFT, # 8 BY HONOUR AND DISHONOUR, BY EVIL REPORT AND GOOD REPORT: AS DECEIVERS, AND YET TRUE; # 9 AS UNKNOWN, AND YET WELL KNOWN; AS DYING, AND, BEHOLD, WE LIVE; AS CHASTENED, AND NOT KILLED; # 10 AS SORROWFUL, YET ALWAY REJOICING; AS POOR, YET MAKING MANY RICH; AS HAVING NOTHING, AND YET POSSESSING ALL THINGS. # 11 O YE CORINTHIANS, OUR MOUTH IS OPEN UNTO YOU, OUR HEART IS ENLARGED. # 12 YE ARE NOT STRAITENED IN US, BUT YE ARE STRAITENED IN YOUR OWN BOWELS. # 13 NOW FOR A RECOMPENCE IN THE SAME, (I SPEAK AS UNTO MY CHILDREN,) BE YE ALSO ENLARGED. # 14 BE YE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS: FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP HATH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS? AND WHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? # 15 AND WHAT CONCORD HATH CHRIST WITH BELIAL? OR WHAT PART HATH HE THAT BELIEVETH WITH AN INFIDEL? # 16 AND WHAT AGREEMENT HATH THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? FOR YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD; AS GOD HATH SAID, I WILL DWELL IN THEM, AND WALK IN THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. # 17 WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING; AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU. # 18 AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY. = CHAPTER 7 # 1 HAVING THEREFORE THESE PROMISES, DEARLY BELOVED, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD. # 2 RECEIVE US; WE HAVE WRONGED NO MAN, WE HAVE CORRUPTED NO MAN, WE HAVE DEFRAUDED NO MAN. # 3 I SPEAK NOT THIS TO CONDEMN YOU: FOR I HAVE SAID BEFORE, THAT YE ARE IN OUR HEARTS TO DIE AND LIVE WITH YOU. # 4 GREAT IS MY BOLDNESS OF SPEECH TOWARD YOU, GREAT IS MY GLORYING OF YOU: I AM FILLED WITH COMFORT, I AM EXCEEDING JOYFUL IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION. # 5 FOR, WHEN WE WERE COME INTO MACEDONIA, OUR FLESH HAD NO REST, BUT WE WERE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE; WITHOUT WERE FIGHTINGS, WITHIN WERE FEARS. # 6 NEVERTHELESS GOD, THAT COMFORTETH THOSE THAT ARE CAST DOWN, COMFORTED US BY THE COMING OF TITUS; # 7 AND NOT BY HIS COMING ONLY, BUT BY THE CONSOLATION WHEREWITH HE WAS COMFORTED IN YOU, WHEN HE TOLD US YOUR EARNEST DESIRE, YOUR MOURNING, YOUR FERVENT MIND TOWARD ME; SO THAT I REJOICED THE MORE. # 8 FOR THOUGH I MADE YOU SORRY WITH A LETTER, I DO NOT REPENT, THOUGH I DID REPENT: FOR I PERCEIVE THAT THE SAME EPISTLE HATH MADE YOU SORRY, THOUGH IT WERE BUT FOR A SEASON. # 9 NOW I REJOICE, NOT THAT YE WERE MADE SORRY, BUT THAT YE SORROWED TO REPENTANCE: FOR YE WERE MADE SORRY AFTER A GODLY MANNER, THAT YE MIGHT RECEIVE DAMAGE BY US IN NOTHING. # 10 FOR GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF: BUT THE SORROW OF THE WORLD WORKETH DEATH. # 11 FOR BEHOLD THIS SELFSAME THING, THAT YE SORROWED AFTER A GODLYBOOK47BIB[.050044]BOOK47.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfFORE SHEW YE TO THEM, AND BEFORE THE CHURCHES, THE PROOF OF YOUR LOVE, AND OF OUR BOASTING ON YOUR BEHALF. = CHAPTER 9 # 1 FOR AS TOUCHING THE MINISTERING TO THE SAINTS, IT IS SUPERFLUOUS FOR ME TO WRITE TO YOU: # 2 FOR I KNOW THE FORWARDNESS OF YOUR MIND, FOR WHICH I BOAST OF YOU TO THEM OF MACEDONIA, THAT ACHAIA WAS READY A YEAR AGO; AND YOUR ZEAL HATH PROVOKED VERY MANY. # 3 YET HAVE I SENT THE BRETHREN, LEST OUR BOASTING OF YOU SHOULD BE IN VAIN IN THIS BEHALF; THAT, AS I SAID, YE MAY BE READY: # 4 LEST HAPLY IF THEY OF MACEDONIA COME WITH ME, AND FIND YOU UNPREPARED, WE (THAT WE SAY NOT, YE) SHOULD BE ASHAMED IN THIS SAME CONFIDENT BOASTING. # 5 THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO EXHORT THE BRETHREN, THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU, AND MAKE UP BEFOREHAND YOUR BOUNTY, WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE, THAT THE SAME MIGHT BE READY, AS A MATTER OF BOUNTY, AND NOT AS OF COVETOUSNESS. # 6 BUT THIS I SAY, HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY SHALL REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY. # 7 EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSETH IN HIS HEART, SO LET HIM GIVE; NOT GRUDGINGLY, OR OF NECESSITY: FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. # 8 AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU; THAT YE, ALWAYS HAVING ALL SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS, MAY ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK: # 9 (AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE HATH DISPERSED ABROAD; HE HATH GIVEN TO THE POOR: HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS REMAINETH FOR EVER. # 10 NOW HE THAT MINISTERETH SEED TO THE SOWER BOTH MINISTER BREAD FOR YOUR FOOD, AND MULTIPLY YOUR SEED SOWN, AND INCREASE THE FRUITS OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS;) # 11 BEING ENRICHED IN EVERY THING TO ALL BOUNTIFULNESS, WHICH CAUSETH THROUGH US THANKSGIVING TO GOD. # 12 FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS SERVICE NOT ONLY SUPPLIETH THE WANT OF THE SAINTS, BUT IS ABUNDANT ALSO BY MANY THANKSGIVINGS UNTO GOD; # 13 WHILES BY THE EXPERIMENT OF THIS MINISTRATION THEY GLORIFY GOD FOR YOUR PROFESSED SUBJECTION UNTO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, AND FOR YOUR LIBERAL DISTRIBUTION UNTO THEM, AND UNTO ALL MEN; # 14 AND BY THEIR PRAYER FOR YOU, WHICH LONG AFTER YOU FOR THE EXCEEDING GRACE OF GOD IN YOU. # 15 THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT. = CHAPTER 10 # 1 NOW I PAUL MYSELF BESEECH YOU BY THE MEEKNESS AND GENTLENESS OF CHRIST, WHO IN PRESENCE AM BASE AMONG YOU, BUT BEING ABSENT AM BOLD TOWARD YOU: # 2 BUT I BESEECH YOU, THAT I MAY NOT BE BOLD WHEN I AM PRESENT WITH THAT CONFIDENCE, WHEREWITH I THINK TO BE BOLD AGAINST SOME, WHICH THINK OF US AS IF WE WALKED ACCORDING TO THE FLESH. # 3 FOR THOUGH WE WALK IN THE FLESH, WE DO NOT WAR AFTER THE FLESH: # 4 (FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL, BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONG HOLDS;) # 5 CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS, AND EVERY HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST; # 6 AND HAVING IN A READINESS TO REVENGE ALL DISOBEDIENCE, WHEN YOUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED. # 7 DO YE LOOK ON THINGS AFTER THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE? IF ANY MAN TRUST TO HIMSELF THAT HE IS CHRISTS, LET HIM OF HIMSELF THINK THIS AGAIN, THAT, AS HE IS CHRISTS, EVEN SO ARE WE CHRISTS. # 8 FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE OF OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN US FOR EDIFICATION, AND NOT FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, I SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED: # 9 THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS. # 10 FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL; BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, AND HIS SPEECH CONTEMPTIBLE. # 11 LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS, THAT, SUCH AS WE ARE IN WORD BY LETTERS WHEN WE ARE ABSENT, SUCH WILL WE BE ALSO IN DEED WHEN WE ARE PRESENT. # 12 FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER, OR COMPARE OURSELVES WITH SOME THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES: BUT THEY MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES, AND COMPARING THEMSELVES AMONG THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WISE. # 13 BUT WE WILL NOT BOAST OF THINGS WITHOUT OUR MEASURE, BUT ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF THE RULE WHICH GOD HATH DISTRIBUTED TO US, A MEASURE TO REACH BOOK47BIB[.050044]BOOK47.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfDNESS. # 28 BESIDE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE WITHOUT, THAT WHICH COMETH UPON ME DAILY, THE CARE OF ALL THE CHURCHES. # 29 WHO IS WEAK, AND I AM NOT WEAK? WHO IS OFFENDED, AND I BURN NOT? # 30 IF I MUST NEEDS GLORY, I WILL GLORY OF THE THINGS WHICH CONCERN MINE INFIRMITIES. # 31 THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH IS BLESSED FOR EVERMORE, KNOWETH THAT I LIE NOT. # 32 IN DAMASCUS THE GOVERNOR UNDER ARETAS THE KING KEPT THE CITY OF THE DAMASCENES WITH A GARRISON, DESIROUS TO APPREHEND ME: # 33 AND THROUGH A WINDOW IN A BASKET WAS I LET DOWN BY THE WALL, AND ESCAPED HIS HANDS. = CHAPTER 12 # 1 IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO GLORY. I WILL COME TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS OF THE LORD. # 2 I KNEW A MAN IN CHRIST ABOVE FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, (WHETHER IN THE BODY, I CANNOT TELL; OR WHETHER OUT OF THE BODY, I CANNOT TELL: GOD KNOWETH;) SUCH AN ONE CAUGHT UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN. # 3 AND I KNEW SUCH A MAN, (WHETHER IN THE BODY, OR OUT OF THE BODY, I CANNOT TELL: GOD KNOWETH;) # 4 HOW THAT HE WAS CAUGHT UP INTO PARADISE, AND HEARD UNSPEAKABLE WORDS, WHICH IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR A MAN TO UTTER. # 5 OF SUCH AN ONE WILL I GLORY: YET OF MYSELF I WILL NOT GLORY, BUT IN MINE INFIRMITIES. # 6 FOR THOUGH I WOULD DESIRE TO GLORY, I SHALL NOT BE A FOOL; FOR I WILL SAY THE TRUTH: BUT NOW I FORBEAR, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD THINK OF ME ABOVE THAT WHICH HE SEETH ME TO BE, OR THAT HE HEARETH OF ME. # 7 AND LEST I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF THE REVELATIONS, THERE WAS GIVEN TO ME A THORN IN THE FLESH, THE MESSENGER OF SATAN TO BUFFET ME, LEST I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE. # 8 FOR THIS THING I BESOUGHT THE LORD THRICE, THAT IT MIGHT DEPART FROM ME. # 9 AND HE SAID UNTO ME, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE: FOR MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS. MOST GLADLY THEREFORE WILL I RATHER GLORY IN MY INFIRMITIES, THAT THE POWER OF CHRIST MAY REST UPON ME. # 10 THEREFORE I TAKE PLEASURE IN INFIRMITIES, IN REPROACHES, IN NECESSITIES, IN PERSECUTIONS, IN DISTRESSES FOR CHRISTS SAKE: FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN AM I STRONG. # 11 I AM BECOME A FOOL IN GLORYING; YE HAVE COMPELLED ME: FOR I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN COMMENDED OF YOU: FOR IN NOTHING AM I BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES, THOUGH I BE NOTHING. # 12 TRULY THE SIGNS OF AN APOSTLE WERE WROUGHT AMONG YOU IN ALL PATIENCE, IN SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND MIGHTY DEEDS. # 13 FOR WHAT IS IT WHEREIN YE WERE INFERIOR TO OTHER CHURCHES, EXCEPT IT BE THAT I MYSELF WAS NOT BURDENSOME TO YOU? FORGIVE ME THIS WRONG. # 14 BEHOLD, THE THIRD TIME I AM READY TO COME TO YOU; AND I WILL NOT BE BURDENSOME TO YOU: FOR I SEEK NOT YOURS BUT YOU: FOR THE CHILDREN OUGHT NOT TO LAY UP FOR THE PARENTS, BUT THE PARENTS FOR THE CHILDREN. # 15 AND I WILL VERY GLADLY SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR YOU; THOUGH THE MORE ABUNDANTLY I LOVE YOU, THE LESS I BE LOVED. # 16 BUT BE IT SO, I DID NOT BURDEN YOU: NEVERTHELESS, BEING CRAFTY, I CAUGHT YOU WITH GUILE. # 17 DID I MAKE A GAIN OF YOU BY ANY OF THEM WHOM I SENT UNTO YOU? # 18 I DESIRED TITUS, AND WITH HIM I SENT A BROTHER. DID TITUS MAKE A GAIN OF YOU? WALKED WE NOT IN THE SAME SPIRIT? WALKED WE NOT IN THE SAME STEPS? # 19 AGAIN, THINK YE THAT WE EXCUSE OURSELVES UNTO YOU? WE SPEAK BEFORE GOD IN CHRIST: BUT WE DO ALL THINGS, DEARLY BELOVED, FOR YOUR EDIFYING. # 20 FOR I FEAR, LEST, WHEN I COME, I SHALL NOT FIND YOU SUCH AS I WOULD, AND THAT I SHALL BE FOUND UNTO YOU SUCH AS YE WOULD NOT: LEST THERE BE DEBATES, ENVYINGS, WRATHS, STRIFES, BACKBITINGS, WHISPERINGS, SWELLINGS, TUMULTS: # 21 AND LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD WILL HUMBLE ME AMONG YOU, AND THAT I SHALL BEWAIL MANY WHICH HAVE SINNED ALREADY, AND HAVE NOT REPENTED OF THE UNCLEANNESS AND FORNICATION AND LASCIVIOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED. = CHAPTER 13 # 1 THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AM COMING TO YOU. IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES SHALL EVERY WORD BE ESTABLISHED. # 2 I TOLD YOU BEFORE, AND FORETELL YOU, AS IF I WERE PRESENT, THE SECOND TIME; AND BEING ABSENT NOW I WRITE TO THEM WHICH HERETOBOOK47BIB[.050044]BOOK47.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfFORE HAVE SINNED, AND TO ALL OTHER, THAT, IF I COME AGAIN, I WILL NOT SPARE: # 3 SINCE YE SEEK A PROOF OF CHRIST SPEAKING IN ME, WHICH TO YOU-WARD IS NOT WEAK, BUT IS MIGHTY IN YOU. # 4 FOR THOUGH HE WAS CRUCIFIED THROUGH WEAKNESS, YET HE LIVETH BY THE POWER OF GOD. FOR WE ALSO ARE WEAK IN HIM, BUT WE SHALL LIVE WITH HIM BY THE POWER OF GOD TOWARD YOU. # 5 EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH; PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES. KNOW YE NOT YOUR OWN SELVES, HOW THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU, EXCEPT YE BE REPROBATES? # 6 BUT I TRUST THAT YE SHALL KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT REPROBATES. # 7 NOW I PRAY TO GOD THAT YE DO NO EVIL; NOT THAT WE SHOULD APPEAR APPROVED, BUT THAT YE SHOULD DO THAT WHICH IS HONEST, THOUGH WE BE AS REPROBATES. # 8 FOR WE CAN DO NOTHING AGAINST THE TRUTH, BUT FOR THE TRUTH. # 9 FOR WE ARE GLAD, WHEN WE ARE WEAK, AND YE ARE STRONG: AND THIS ALSO WE WISH, EVEN YOUR PERFECTION. # 10 THEREFORE I WRITE THESE THINGS BEING ABSENT, LEST BEING PRESENT I SHOULD USE SHARPNESS, ACCORDING TO THE POWER WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN ME TO EDIFICATION, AND NOT TO DESTRUCTION. # 11 FINALLY, BRETHREN, FAREWELL. BE PERFECT, BE OF GOOD COMFORT, BE OF ONE MIND, LIVE IN PEACE; AND THE GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE SHALL BE WITH YOU. # 12 GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS. # 13 ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU. # 14 THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY GHOST, BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.