2 Corinthians
Chapter 1
1:1Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christos, by the will of Theos,and our brother Timothy, to the Church of Theos, who is at Corinth with all the Saints, who are in all Achaia:
1:2Grace be with you,and peace from Theos our Father,and from the Kyrios Jesus Christos.
1:3Blessed be Theos, even the Father of our Kyrios Jesus Christos, the Father of compassions,and the Theos of all comfort,
1:4Which comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort with what we ourselves are comforted of Theos.
1:5For as the sufferings of Christos abound in us, so our consolation abounds through Christos.
1:6And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is worked in the enduring of the same sufferings, which we also suffer:or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
1:7And our hope is steadfast concerning you, inasmuch as we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.
1:8For brethren, we would not have you ignorant of our affliction, which came to us in Asia, how we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, even of life.
1:9Yes, we received the sentence of death in ourselves, because we should not trust in ourselves,but in Theos, who raises the dead.
1:10Who delivered us from so great a death,and does deliver us:in whom we trust,that yet hereafter he will deliver us,
1:11So that you labor together in supplication for us,that for the gift bestowed upon us for many, thanks may be given by many persons for us.
1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,that in simplicity and godly pureness,and not in fleshly wisdom,but by the grace of Theos we have had our conduct in the world,and most of all toward you.
1:13For we write none other things to you, then that you read or else that you acknowledge,and I trust you shall acknowledge to the end.
1:14Even as you have acknowledged us partly,that we are your rejoicing, even as you are ours, in the day of our Kyrios Jesus.
1:15And in this confidence was I minded first to come to you,that you might have had a double grace,
1:16And to pass by you into Macedonia,and to come again out of Macedonia to you,and to be led forth toward Judea of you.
1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or mind I those things which I mind, according to the flesh,that with me should be, Yes, yes,and No, no?
1:18Yes, Theos is faithful,that our word toward you was not Yes,and No.
1:19For the Son of Theos Jesus Christos, who was preached among you by us,that is, by me,and Silvanus,and Timothy, was not Yes,and No:but in him it was Yes.
1:20For all the promises of Theos in him are Yes,and are in him Amen, to the glory of Theos through us.
1:21And it is Theos who establishes us with you in Christos,and has anointed us.
1:22Who has also sealed us,and has given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
1:23Now, I call Theos for a record to my psyche,that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth.
1:24Not that we have dominion over your faith,but we are helpers of your joy:for by faith you stand.
Chapter 2
2:1But I determined thus in myself,that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2:2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that should make me glad,but the same which is made sorry by me?
2:3And I wrote this same thing to you,lest when I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice:this confidence have I in you all,that my joy is the joy of you all.
2:4For in great affliction,and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears:not that you should be made sorry,but that you might perceive the love which I have, specially to you.
2:5And if any has caused sorrow, the same has not made me sorry,but partly (lest I should more charge him) you all.
2:6It is sufficient to the same man,that he was rebuked of many.
2:7So that now contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him,and comfort him,lest the same should be swallowed up with overmuch heaviness.
2:8Therefore, I urge you,that you would confirm your love toward him.
2:9For this cause also did I write,that I might know the proof of you, whether you would be obedient in all things.
2:10To whom you forgive anything, I forgive also:for verily if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it,for your sakes forgave I it in the sight of Christos,
2:11Lest Satanas should circumvent us:for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.
2:12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christos's Gospel,and a door was opened to me of the Kyrios,
2:13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother,but took my leave of them,and went away into Macedonia.
2:14Now thanks be to Theos, who always makes us to triumph in Christos,and makes manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
2:15For we are to Theos the sweet savor of Christos, in them that are saved,and in them which perish.
2:16To the one we are the savor of death, to death,and to the other the savor of life, to life:and who is sufficient for these things?
2:17For we are not as many, which make merchandise of the word of Theos:but as of sincerity,but as of Theos in the sight of Theos speak we in Christos.
Chapter 3
3:1Do we begin to praise ourselves again? Or need we as some other, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
3:2You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understand,and read of all men,
3:3In that you are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christos, ministered by us,and written, not with ink,but with the Spirit of the living Theos, not in tables of stone,but in fleshly tables of the heart.
3:4And such trust have we through Christos to Theos:
3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think anything, as of ourselves:but our sufficiency is of Theos,
3:6Who also has made us able ministers of the New covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
3:7If then the ministration of death written with letters and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses,for the glory of his countenance (which glory is done away.)
3:8How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
3:9For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
3:10For even that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point,that is, as touching the exceeding glory.
3:11For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remains, be glorious.
3:12Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness of speech.
3:13And we are not as Moses, which put a veil upon his face,that the children of Israel should not look to the end of that which should be abolished.
3:14Therefore their minds are hardened: for until this day remains the same covering untaken away in the reading of the old Covenant, which veil is put away in Christos.
3:15But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is laid over their hearts.
3:16Nevertheless when their heart shall be turned to the Kyrios, the veil shall be taken away.
3:17Now the Kyrios is the Spirit,and where the Spirit of the Kyrios is, there is liberty.
3:18But we all behold as in a mirror the glory of the Kyrios with open face,and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Kyrios.
Chapter 4
4:1Therefore, seeing that we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not:
4:2But have cast from us the cloaks of shame,and walk not in craftiness,neither handle we the word of Theos deceitfully:but in declaration of the truth we approve ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of Theos.
4:3If our Gospel be then hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
4:4In whom the Theos of this world has blinded the minds,that is, of the infidels,that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christos, who is the image of Theos, should not shine to them.
4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christos Jesus the Kyrios, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
4:6For Theos that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, is he who has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of Theos in the face of Jesus Christos.
4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,that the excellency of that power might be of Theos,and not of us.
4:8We are afflicted on every side, yet are we not in distress:we are in doubt,but yet we despair not.
4:9We are persecuted,but not forsaken:cast down,but we perish not.
4:10everywhere we bear about in our body the dying of the Kyrios Jesus,that the life of Jesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.
4:11For we which live, are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
4:12So then death works in us,and life in you.
4:13And because we have the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed,and therefore have I spoken, we also believe,and therefore speak,
4:14Knowing that he who has raised up the Kyrios Jesus, shall raise us up also by Jesus,and shall set us with you.
4:15For all things are for your sakes,that that most plenteous grace by the thanksgiving of many, may redound to the praise of Theos.
4:16Therefore we faint not,but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daily.
4:17For our light affliction which is but for a moment, causes to us a far most excellent and an eternal weight of glory:
4:18While we look not on the things which are seen,but on the things which are not seen:for the things which are seen, are temporary:but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
Chapter 5
5:1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we have a building given of Theos,that is, a house not made with hands,but eternal in the heavens.
5:2For therefore we sigh, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heaven.
5:3Because that if we be clothed, we shall not be found naked.
5:4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be unclothed,but would be clothed upon,that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5:5And he that has created us for this thing, is Theos, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit.
5:6Therefore we are always bold, though we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Kyrios.
5:7(For we walk by faith,and not by sight.)
5:8Nevertheless, we are bold,and love rather to remove out of the body,and to dwell with the Kyrios.
5:9Therefore also we covet,that both dwelling at home,and removing from home, we may be acceptable to him.
5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christos,that every man may receive the things which are done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or evil.
5:11Knowing therefore that terror of the Kyrios, we persuade men,and we are made manifest to Theos,and I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences.
5:12For we praise not ourselves again to you,but give you an occasion to rejoice of us,that you may have to answer against them, which rejoice in the face,and not in the heart.
5:13For whether we be out of our mind, we are it to Theos:or whether we be in our right mind, we are it to you.
5:14For that love of Christos constrains us,
5:15Because we thus judge,that if one be dead for all, then were all dead,and he died for all,that they who live, should no longer live to themselves,but to him which died for them,and rose again.
5:16Therefore, from now on know we no man after the flesh, yes though we had known Christos after the flesh, yet now from now on know we him no more.
5:17Therefore if any man be in Christos, let him be a new creature. Old things are passed away:behold, all things are become new.
5:18And all things are of Theos, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christos,and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
5:19For Theos was in Christos,and reconciled the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them,and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
5:20Now then are we ambassadors for Christos:as though Theos appealed to you through us, we beseech in Christos's stead,that you be reconciled to Theos.
5:21For he has made him to be sin for us, which knew no sin,that we should be made the righteousness of Theos in him.
Chapter 6
6:1So we therefore as workers together urge you,that you do not receive the grace of Theos in vain.
6:2For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted,and in the day of salvation have I succored you:behold now the accepted time, behold now the day of salvation.
6:3We give no occasion of offense in anything,that our ministry should not be reprehended.
6:4But in all things we approve ourselves as the ministers of Theos, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
6:5In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labors,
6:6By watchings, by fastings, by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
6:7By the word of truth, by the power of Theos, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand,and on the left,
6:8By honor,and dishonor, by evil report,and good report, as deceivers,and yet true:
6:9As unknown,and yet known:as dying,and behold, we live:as chastened,and yet not killed:
6:10As sorrowing,and yet always rejoicing:as poor,and yet make many rich:as having nothing,and yet possessing all things.
6:11O Corinthians, our mouth is open to you:our heart is made large.
6:12You are not restricted in us,but you are restricted in your own bowels.
6:13Now for the same recompense, I speak as to my children, Be you also enlarged.
6:14Be not unequally yoked with the infidels:for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?
6:15And what concord has Christos with Beliar? Or what part has the believer with the infidel?
6:16And what agreement has the Temple of Theos with idols? For you are the Temple of the living Theos:as Theos has said, I will dwell among them,and walk there:and I will be their Theos,and they shall be my people.
6:17Therefore come out from among them,and separate yourselves, says the Kyrios,and touch no unclean thing,and I will receive you.
6:18And I will be a Father to you,and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Kyrios almighty.
Chapter 7
7:1Seeing then we have these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all uncleanness of the flesh and spirit, and finish our sanctification in the fear of Theos.
7:2Receive us:we have done wrong to no man:we have corrupted no man:we have defrauded no man.
7:3I speak it not to your condemnation:for I have said before,that you are in our hearts, to die and live together.
7:4I use great boldness of speech toward you:I rejoice greatly in you:I am filled with comfort,and am exceeding joyous in all our tribulation.
7:5For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest,but we were troubled on every side, fightings without,and terrors within.
7:6But Theos,that comforts the abject, comforted us at the coming of Titus:
7:7And not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with what he was comforted of you, when he told us your great desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward, so that I rejoiced much more.
7:8For though I made you sorry with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent:for I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
7:9I now rejoice, not that you were sorry,but that you sorrowed to repentance:for you sorrowed godly, so that in nothing you were hurt by us.
7:10For godly sorrow causes repentance to salvation, not to be repented of:but the worldly sorrow causes death.
7:11For behold, this thing that you have been godly sorry, what great care it has worked in you:yes, what clearing of yourselves:yes, what indignation:yes, what fear:yes, how great desire:yes, what a zeal:yes, what revenge:in all things you have showed yourselves,that you are pure in this matter.
7:12Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did not it for his cause that had done the wrong,neither for his cause that had the injury,but that our care toward you in the sight of Theos might appear to you.
7:13Therefore we were comforted, because you were comforted:but rather we rejoiced much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
7:14For if that I have boasted anything to him of you, I have not been ashamed:but as I have spoken to you all things in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was true.
7:15And his bowels are more abundant toward you, when he remembers the obedience of you all,and how with fear and trembling you received him.
7:16I rejoice therefore that I may put my confidence in you in all things.
Chapter 8
8:1Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of Theos bestowed upon the Churches of Macedonia,
8:2Because in great trial of affliction their joy abounded,and their most extreme poverty abounded to their rich liberality.
8:3For to their power (I bear record) yes,and beyond their power, they were willing,
8:4And beseeched us with much urgency that we would receive the grace,and fellowship of the ministering which is toward the Saints.
8:5And this they did, not as we looked for:but gave their own selves, first to the Kyrios,and after to us by the will of Theos,
8:6That we should exhort Titus,that as he had begun, so he would also accomplish the same grace among you also.
8:7Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith and word,and knowledge,and in all diligence,and in your love toward us, even so see that you abound in this grace also.
8:8This say I not by commandment,but because of the diligence of others:therefore prove I the naturalness of your love.
8:9For you know the grace of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,that he being rich,for your sakes became poor,that you through his poverty might be made rich.
8:10And I show my mind in this: for this is expedient for you, which have begun not to do only, but also to will, a year ago.
8:11Now therefore perform to do it also,that as there was a readiness to will, even so you may perform it of that which you have.
8:12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has,and not according to that he has not.
8:13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieved:But upon like condition, at this time your abundance supplies their lack:
8:14That also their abundance may be for your lack,that there may be equality:
8:15As it is written, He that gathered much, had nothing over,and he that gathered little, had not the less.
8:16And thanks be to Theos, who has put in the heart of Titus the same care for you.
8:17Because he accepted the exhortation, yes, he was so careful that of his own accord he went to you.
8:18And we have sent also with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches.
8:19(And not so only,but is also chosen of the Churches to be a fellow in our journey, concerning this grace that is ministered by us to the glory of the same Kyrios,and declaration of your prompt mind)
8:20Avoiding this,that no man should blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,
8:21Providing for honest things, not only before the Kyrios,but also before men.
8:22And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved to be diligent in many things,but now much more diligent,for the great confidence, which I have in you.
8:23Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my fellow and helper toward you:or of our brethren, they are messengers of the Churches,and the glory of Christos.
8:24Therefore show toward them,and before the Churches the proof of your love,and of the rejoicing that we have of you.
Chapter 9
9:1For as touching the ministering to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.
9:2For I know your readiness of mind, of what I boast myself of you to them of Macedonia, and say, that Achaia was prepared a year ago, and your zeal has provoked many.
9:3Now have I sent the brethren,lest our rejoicing over you should be in vain in this behalf,that you (as I have said) be ready:
9:4Lest if they of Macedonia come with me,and find you unprepared, we (that we may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.
9:5Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to come before to you,and to finish your benevolence appointed before,that it might be ready,and come as of benevolence,and not as of covetousness.
9:6This yet remember,that he who sows sparingly, shall reap also sparingly,and he that sows liberally, shall reap also liberally.
9:7As every man wishes in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or of necessity:for Theos loves a cheerful giver.
9:8And Theos is able to make all grace to abound toward you,that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work,
9:9(As it is written, He has dispersed abroad and has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever.
9:10Also he that finds seed to the sower, will minister likewise bread for food, and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,)
9:11That on all parts you may be made rich to all liberality, which causes through us thanksgiving to Theos.
9:12For the administration of this service not only supplies the necessities of the Saints,but also abundantly causes many to give thanks to Theos,
9:13(Which by the experiment of this ministration praise Theos for your voluntary submission to the Gospel of Christos,and for your liberal distribution to them,and to all men)
9:14And in their supplication for you, to long after you greatly,for the abundant grace of Theos in you.
9:15Thanks therefore be to Theos for his unspeakable gift.
Chapter 10
10:1Now I Paul myself ask you by the meekness,and gentleness of Christos, who when I am present among you am base,but am bold toward you being absent:
10:2And this I beseech you, that I need not to be bold when I am present, with that same confidence, with which I think to be bold against some, which esteem us as though we walked according to the flesh.
10:3Nevertheless, though we walk in the flesh, yet we do not war after the flesh.
10:4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,but mighty through Theos, to cast down holds)
10:5Casting down the imaginations,and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of Theos,and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christos,
10:6And having ready the vengeance against all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
10:7Look you on things after the appearance? If any man trust in himself that he is Christos's, let him consider this again of himself,that as he is Christos's, even so are we Christos's.
10:8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Kyrios has given us for edification,and not for your destruction, I should have no shame.
10:9This I say,that I may not seem as it were to fear you with letters.
10:10For the letters, says he, are sore and strong,but his bodily presence is weak,and his speech is of no value.
10:11Let such one reckon this,that such as we are in word by letters, when we are absent, such will we be also indeed, when we are present.
10:12For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or to compare ourselves to them, which praise themselves:but they understand not that they measure themselves with themselves,and compare themselves with themselves.
10:13But we will not rejoice of things, which are not within our measure, but according to the measure of the line, of what Theos has distributed to us a measure to attain even to you.
10:14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we had not attained to you:for even to you also have we come in preaching the Gospel of Christos,
10:15Not boasting of things which are without our measure:that is, of other men's labors:and we hope, when your faith shall increase, to be magnified by you according to our line abundantly,
10:16And to preach the Gospel in those regions which are beyond you:not to rejoice in another man's line,that is, in the things that are prepared already.
10:17But let him that rejoices, rejoice in the Kyrios.
10:18For he that praises himself, is not allowed,but he whom the Kyrios praises.
Chapter 11
11:1Would to God, you could suffer a little my foolishness,and indeed, you suffer me.
11:2For I am jealous over you, with godly jealousy:for I have prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christos:
11:3But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christos.
11:4For if he that comes, preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached:or if you receive another spirit whom you have not received:either another Gospel, which you have not received, you might well have suffered him.
11:5Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles.
11:6And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge,but among you we have been made manifest to the uttermost, in all things.
11:7Have I committed a sin, because I abased myself,that you might be exalted,and because I proclaimed to you the Gospel of Theos freely?
11:8I robbed other Churches,and took wages of them to do you service.
11:9And when I was present with you,and had need, I was not slothful to the hindrance of any man:for that which was lacking to me, the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied,and in all things I kept and will keep myself,that I should not be grievous to you.
11:10The truth of Christos is in me,that this rejoicing shall not be shut up against me in the regions of Achaia.
11:11Why? Because I love you not? Theos knows.
11:12But what I do, that will I do: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like to us in that in which they rejoice.
11:13For such false apostles are deceitful workers,and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christos.
11:14And no marvel:for Satanas himself is transformed into an Angel of light.
11:15Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
11:16I say again, Let no man think that I am foolish, or else take me even as a fool,that I also may boast myself a little.
11:17That I speak, I speak it not after the Kyrios:but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.
11:18Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also.
11:19For the suffer fools gladly, because that you are wise.
11:20For the suffer, even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
11:21I speak as concerning the reproach: as though that we had been weak: but in which any man is bold ( I speak foolishly) I am bold also.
11:22They are Hebrews, so am I:they are Israelites, so am I:they are the seed of Abraham, so am I:
11:23They are the ministers of Christos (I speak as a fool) I am more:in labors more abundant:in stripes above measure:in prison more plenteously:in death oft.
11:24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
11:25I was thrice beaten with rods:I was once stoned:I suffered thrice shipwreck:night and day have I been in the deep sea.
11:26In journeying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,
11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.
11:28Beside the things which are outward, I am burdened daily,and have the care of all the Churches.
11:29Who is weak,and I am not weak? Who is offended,and I burn not?
11:30If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of my infirmities.
11:31The Theos, even the Father of our Kyrios Jesus Christos, who is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.
11:32In Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes,and would have caught me.
11:33But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall,and escaped his hands.
Chapter 12
12:1It is not expedient for me no doubt to rejoice:for I will come to visions and revelations of the Kyrios.
12:2I know a man in Christos more than fourteen years ago, (whether he were in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know:Theos knows) which was taken up into the third heaven.
12:3And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I do not know:Theos knows)
12:4How that he was taken up into Paradise,and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to utter.
12:5Of such a man will I rejoice:of myself will I not rejoice, except it be of my infirmities.
12:6For though I would rejoice, I should not be a fool,for I will say the truth:but I refrain,lest any man should think of me above that he sees in me, or that he hears of me.
12:7And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a prick in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
12:8For this thing I implored the Kyrios thrice,that it might depart from me.
12:9And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you:for my power is made perfect through weakness. Very gladly therefore will I rejoice rather in my infirmities,that the power of Christos may dwell in me.
12:10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christos's sake:for when I am weak, then am I strong.
12:11I was a fool to boast myself:you have compelled me:for I ought to have been commended of you:for in nothing was I inferior to the very chief Apostles, though I be nothing.
12:12The signs of an Apostle were worked among you with all patience, with signs, and wonders, and mighty works.
12:13For what is it, in which you were inferior to other Churches, except that I have not been slothful to your hindrance? Forgive me this wrong.
12:14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you,and yet will I not be slothful to your hindrance:for I seek not yours,but you:for the children ought not to lay up for the fathers,but the fathers for the children.
12:15And I will most gladly bestow,and will be bestowed for your psyches:though the more I love you, the less I am loved.
12:16But be it that I charged you not:yet for as much as I was crafty, I took you with guile.
12:17Did I pill you by any of them whom I sent to you?
12:18I have desired Titus,and with him I have sent a brother:did Titus pill you of anything? Walked we not in the self same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?
12:19Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before Theos in Christos. But we do all things, dearly beloved,for your edifying.
12:20For I fear lest when I come, I shall not find you such as I would:and that I shall be found to you such as you would not,and lest there be strife, envying, wrath, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings and discord.
12:21I fear lest when I come again, my Theos abase me among you,and I shall bewail many of them which have sinned already,and have not repented of the uncleanness,and fornication,and wantonness which they have committed.
Chapter 13
13:1Lo this is the third time that I come to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand
13:2I told you before,and tell you before:as though I had been present the second time, so write I now being absent to them which heretofore have sinned and to all others,that if I come again, I will not spare,
13:3Seeing that you seek experience of Christos,that speaks in me, which toward you is not weak,but is mighty in you.
13:4For though he was crucified concerning his infirmity, yet lives he through the power of Theos. And we no doubt are weak in him,but we shall live with him, through the power of Theos toward you.
13:5Prove yourselves whether you are in the faith:examine yourselves:know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christos is in you, except you be reprobates?
13:6But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
13:7Now I pray to Theos that you do none evil, not that we should seem approved,but that you should do that which is honest:though we be as reprobates.
13:8For we cannot do anything against the truth,but for the truth.
13:9For we are glad when we are weak,and that you are strong:this also we wish for, even your perfection.
13:10Therefore write I these things being absent,lest when I am present, I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Kyrios has given me, to edification,and not to destruction.
13:11Finally brethren, farewell:be perfected:be of good comfort:be of one mind:live in peace,and the Theos of love and peace shall be with you.
13:12Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13:13All the Saints salute you.
13:14The grace of our Kyrios Jesus Christos,and the love of Theos,and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all, Amen. The second Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a city in Macedonia,and sent by Titus and Lucas.