1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy {our} brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: / 2. Grace {be} to you and peace from God our Father, and {from} the Lord Jesus Christ. →

1. But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. / 2. For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? / 3. And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is {the joy} of you all. →

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: →

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 man's conscience in the sight of God. →

1. For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. / 2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: →

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. →

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. →

1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; / 2. How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. →

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. →

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: {in presence: or, in outward appearance} / 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. →

1. Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me. {indeed bear...: or, indeed ye do bear with me} / 2. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ. →

1. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. {I will come: Gr. For I will come} / 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. →

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 heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: →