1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our trouble, so that we too can comfort those who are in any trouble through consolation with which we are comforted by God.
5 For as the afflictions of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
6 But if we are troubled, it is for your consolation and salvation; or if we are consoled, it is for your consolation and salvation, which takes place in suffering the same afflictions that we also suffer.
7 And our hope for you is firm, for we know that just as you are companions in afflictions, you are also companions in consolation.
8 For brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about our tribulation that came upon us in Asia; for we were overwhelmed beyond our strength, so that we even lost hope of preserving life.
9 But we had the sentence of death upon ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead;
10 who delivered us, and delivers us, and in whom we hope that he will still deliver us, from so great a death;
11 You also cooperate on our behalf with prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf for many people for the gift given to us through many.
12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with the simplicity and sincerity of God, not with human wisdom, but with the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and much more with you.
13 For we do not write to you other things than what you read, or also understand; and I hope that until the end you will understand them;
14 just as you have also partially understood that we are your glory, as you also are ours, for the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 With this confidence I wanted to go first to you, so that you might have a second grace,
16 and to go through you to Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come to you again, and to be led by you to Judea.
17 So, in proposing this, did I perhaps use levity? Or do I plan what I intend to do according to the flesh, so that there may be Yes and No in me?
18 But since God is faithful, our word to you is not Yes and No.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No; but it has been Yes in him;
20 for all the promises of God are in him Yes, and in him Amen, through us, to the glory of God.
21 And he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God,
22 who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call upon God as a witness for my soul, that because I have been lenient toward you, I have not yet gone over to Corinth.
24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work together for your joy; because by faith you stand.
1 This, then, I determined for myself, not to come to you again in sadness.
2 For if I grieve you, then who will make me happy but the one whom I grieve?
3 And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I arrive I may not have sadness on the part of those in whom I should rejoice; trusting in you all that my joy is that of all of you.
4 Because out of great tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not so that you would be grieved, but so that you would know how great the love I have for you.
5 But if anyone has caused me sadness, he has not caused it to me alone, but in a certain way (not to exaggerate) to all of you.
6 This rebuke by many is enough for such a person;
7 So, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, so that he may not be consumed with too much sadness.
8 Therefore I beg you to confirm your love for him.
9 For also for this purpose I wrote to you, to test whether you are obedient in all things.
10 And whomever you forgive, I also; For what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I have done it for you in the presence of Christ,
11 so that Satan may not gain any advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his machinations.
12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, although a door was opened to me in the Lord,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I had not found my brother Titus; So, taking leave of them, I set out for Macedonia.
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus, and through us manifests in every place the aroma of the knowledge of him.
15 For to God we are a sweet savor of Christ in those who are being saved, and in those who are perishing;
16 to these certainly a smell of death to death, and to those a smell of life to life. And for these things, who is enough?
17 For we are not like many, who prosper by falsifying the word of God, but we speak sincerely, as from God, and before God, in Christ.
1 Shall we start recommending ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation for you, or recommendations from you?
2 You are our letters, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
3 being manifest that you are a letter from Christ issued by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of heart flesh.
4 And such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
5 not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competence comes from God,
6 who also made us competent ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit; because the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
7 And if the ministry of death engraved in letters on stones was with glory, so much so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was to perish,
8 how Will not the ministry of the spirit be rather with glory?
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was with glory, much more will the ministry of justification abound in glory.
10 For even that which was glorious is not glorious in this respect, compared with the most eminent glory.
11 For if what perishes had glory, much more glorious will be what remains.
12 Therefore, having such hope, we used much frankness;
13 and not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the children of Israel would not fix their eyes on the end of that which was to be abolished.
14 But their understanding became dull; because to this day, when they read the old covenant, they have the same unrevealed veil left, which is removed by Christ.
15 And even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is placed over their hearts.
16 But when they turn to the Lord, the veil will be removed.
17 For the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 Therefore we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed from glory to glory into the same image, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1 Therefore, since we have this ministry according to the mercy we have received, we do not lose heart.
2 But we renounce what is hidden and shameful, not by walking in craftiness, nor by adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every human conscience before God.
3 But if our gospel is still hid, it is hid to those who are lost;
4 in which the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.
5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, is the one who shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be from God, and not from us,
8 who are troubled in every way, but not distressed; in trouble, but not desperate;
9 persecuted, but not abandoned; knocked down, but not destroyed;
10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus everywhere, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies.
11 For we who are alive are always given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So death works in us, and life in you.
13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written: I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, therefore we also spoke,
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus , and will present us together with you.
15 For we suffer all these things for your sake, so that grace abounding through many, thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart; But although this external man of ours is wasting away, the internal one is nevertheless renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction produces for us a more and more excellent and eternal weight of glory;
18 We look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are unseen; For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.
1 For we know that if our earthly dwelling, this tabernacle, is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 And for this reason we also groan, longing to be clothed with that heavenly habitation of ours;
3 for thus we will be found clothed, and not naked.
4 For we who are in this tabernacle also groan in anguish; because we would not like to be stripped, but rather clothed, so that what is mortal may be absorbed by life.
5 But he who made us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 So we live always confident, and knowing that while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord
7 (because we walk by faith, not by sight);
8 but we trust, and would rather be absent from the body, and present to the Lord.
9 Therefore we also try, whether absent or present, to be pleasing to Him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive according to what he has done while he was in the body, whether good or bad.
11 Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuaded men; but it is manifest to God what we are; and I hope that he is also so to your consciences.
12 Therefore we do not recommend ourselves to you again, but we give you the opportunity to boast about us, so that you may have something to respond to those who glory in appearances and not in the heart.
13 Because if we are crazy, it is for God; and if we are sane, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ constrains us, thinking this: that if one died for all, then all died;
15 and he died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and was resurrected for them.
16 So from now on we know no one according to the flesh; and even if we knew Christ according to the flesh, we no longer know him that way.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things passed away; behold, they are all made new.
18 And all this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting men’s sins against them, and he entrusted to us the word of reconciliation.
20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were praying through us; We beseech you in the name of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
21 He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
1 Therefore we, as his fellow workers, also exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 For he says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Here is now the acceptable time; here is now the day of salvation.
3 We do not give anyone any occasion to stumble, so that our ministry may not be reproached;
4 but rather, we recommend ourselves in everything as ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses;
5 in scourgings, in prisons, in tumults, in work, in sleepless nights, in fasting;
6 in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in goodness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, with weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left;
8 for honor and for dishonor, for bad fame and for good fame; like deceivers, but truthful;
9 as unknown, but well known; as dying, but behold we live; as punished, but not dead;
10 as saddened, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, but possessing everything.
11 Our mouth has opened to you, O Corinthians; our heart has expanded.
12 You are not narrow in us, but you are narrow in your own hearts.
13 Therefore, to respond in the same way (as I speak to children), expand yourselves also.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers; because what fellowship has justice with injustice? And what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
17 Therefore, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, And do not touch the unclean thing; And I will receive you,
18 And I will be a Father to you, And you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
1 Therefore, beloved, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Admit to us: we have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have deceived no one.
3 I do not say this to condemn you; Well, I have already said before that you are in our hearts, to die and to live together.
4 I have much frankness with you; I boast greatly about you; I am full of consolation; I overflow with joy in all our tribulations.
5 For truly, when we came to Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were troubled in every way; from outside, conflicts; from within, fears.
6 But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us with the coming of Titus;
7 and not only with his coming, but also with the consolation with which he had been consoled regarding you, making known to us your great affection, your crying, your concern for me, so that I rejoiced even more.
8 Because although I grieved you with the letter, it does not grieve me, although I regretted it then; because I see that that letter, although for a time, saddened you.
9 Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved to repentance; for you have been grieved according to God, so that you would not suffer any loss from us.
10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which need not be repented of; but the sadness of the world produces death.
11 For behold, this very thing that you were grieved according to God, what earnestness it produced in you, what defense, what indignation, what fear, what ardent affection, what zeal, and what vindication! In everything you have shown clear in this matter.
12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who committed the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered it, but that our concern for you before God might be made clear to you.
13 For this reason we have been comforted in your consolation; But we rejoice much more for the joy of Titus, that his spirit has been comforted by all of you.
14 For if I have boasted about anything about you, I have not been put to shame, but just as we have spoken truth to you in everything, so our boasting about Titus turned out to be true.
15 And his affection for you is even more abundant, when he remembers the obedience of all of you, how you received him with fear and trembling.
16 I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.
1 Likewise, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia;
2 that in great trial of tribulation, the abundance of his joy and his deep poverty abounded in the riches of his generosity.
3 For I testify that they have gladly given according to their strength, and even beyond their strength,
4 asking us with many prayers that we would grant them the privilege of participating in this service for the saints.
5 And not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God;
6 So we exhort Titus that just as he began before, he may also finish this work of grace among you.
7 Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love toward us, abound also in this grace.
8 I do not speak as one who commands, but to test, through the diligence of others, also the sincerity of your love.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, although he was rich, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
10 And in this I give my advice; because this suits you, who began earlier, not only to do it, but also to want it, since last year.
11 Now therefore also carry out the doing, so that as you were ready to will, so you may also be ready to perform according to what you have.
12 For if the will is first willing, it will be accepted according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
13 For I do not say this so that there may be ease for others and hardship for you,
14 but so that at this time, with equality, your abundance may supply their lack, so that their abundance may also supply your need, so that let there be equality,
15 as it is written: He who gathered much had no more, and he who gathered little had no less.
16 But thanks be to God who put the same concern for you in Titus’s heart.
17 For indeed he received the exhortation; but being also very solicitous, of his own will he set out to come to you.
18 And We sent with him the brother whose praise in the gospel is heard in all the churches;
19 and not only this, but he was also appointed by the churches as a companion of our pilgrimage to carry this donation, which is administered by us for the glory of the Lord himself, and to demonstrate your good will;
20 avoiding anyone to censure us regarding this abundant offering that we administer,
21 trying to do things honestly, not only before the Lord but also before men.
22 We also sent with them our brother, whose diligence we have repeatedly verified in many things, and now much more diligent because of the great trust he has in you.
23 As for Titus, he is my companion and collaborator with you; and as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, and glory of Christ.
24 Therefore show them before the churches the proof of your love, and of our boasting about you.
1 As for the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you;
2 For I know your good will, of which I boast among the people of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared since last year; and your zeal has stimulated the majority.
3 But I have sent the brothers, so that our boasting about you may not be in vain in this part; so that, as I have said, you may be prepared;
4 lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unawares, we, not to mention you, will be ashamed of this confidence of ours.
5 Therefore, I considered it necessary to exhort the brothers to come to you first and prepare first your previously promised generosity, so that it may be ready as a generosity, and not as a demand from us.
6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows generously, he will also reap generously.
7 Let each one give as he purposed in his heart: not with sadness, nor out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that, always having all sufficiency in all things, you may abound in every good work;
9 as it is written: He distributed, he gave to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.
10 And he who gives seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, will provide and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11 so that you may be enriched in every way for all liberality, which produces through us action of Thank God.
12 For the ministration of this service not only supplies what the saints lack, but also abounds in many thanksgivings to God;
13 for by the experience of this ministration they glorify God for the obedience that you profess to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;
14 also in their prayer for you, whom they love because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
15 Thank God for his ineffable gift!
1 I, Paul, pray to you for the meekness and tenderness of Christ, I who, being present, am certainly humble among you, but absent I am bold toward you;
2 I pray, therefore, that when I am present, I will not have to use that boldness with which I am willing to proceed resolutely against some who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
3 For although we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh;
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
6 and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is perfect.
7 You look at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ’s, let him also think for himself, that as he is Christ’s, so we are Christ’s.
8 For even if I boast a little more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for building up and not for your destruction, I will not be ashamed;
9 so that it doesn’t seem like I want to intimidate you with letters.
10 For in truth, they say, the letters are hard and strong; but the bodily presence is weak, and the word contemptible.
11 Let such a person take this into account, that just as we are in word through letters, being absent, we will also be so in deeds, being present.
12 For we dare not count ourselves or compare ourselves with some who praise themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not judicious.
13 But we will not boast excessively, but according to the rule that God has given us as a measure, to reach you also.
14 For we have not gone too far, as if we did not reach you, since we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.
15 We do not boast excessively in other people’s works, but we hope that as your faith grows we will be greatly exalted among you, according to our rule;
16 and that we will proclaim the gospel in places beyond you, without entering into another’s work to glory in what has already been prepared.
17 But he who boasts, let him glory in the Lord;
18 For it is not he who praises himself who is approved, but he whom God praises.
1 I wish you would tolerate a little madness from me! Yes, bear with me.
2 For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God; for I have betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear that just as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from sincere fidelity to Christ.
4 For if someone comes preaching another Jesus than the one we preached to you, or if you receive another spirit than the one you received, or another gospel than the one you accepted, you tolerate it well;
5 and I think that I have been in no way inferior to those great apostles.
6 For though I am rough in speech, I am not rough in knowledge; In everything and for everything we have shown it to you.
7 Have I sinned by humbling myself, that you might be exalted, because I have preached the gospel of God to you without profit?
8 I have plundered other churches, receiving wages to serve you.
9 And when I was among you and was in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked, the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied, and in everything I kept and will keep from being a burden to you.
10 By the truth of Christ who is in me, this glory of mine will not be prevented from me in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why? Why don’t I love you? God knows.
12 But what I do, I will do again, to remove the opportunity for those who desire it, so that in what they boast of, they may be found like us.
13 For these are false apostles, fraudulent workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
14 And it is no wonder, because Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.
15 Therefore, it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end will be according to his works.
16 Again I say: Let no one consider me crazy; or in another way, receive me like a madman, so that I too may boast a little.
17 What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in madness, with this confidence of boasting.
18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast;
19 because you tolerate fools gladly, being sane.
20 For you tolerate it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone takes what is yours, if someone exalts himself, if someone slaps you.
21 To my shame I say it, for that we were too weak. But in what another has boldness (I speak madly), I also have boldness.
22 Are they Hebrews? Me too. Are they Israelites? Me too. Are they descendants of Abraham? Me too.
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (As if I were crazy I speak.) Me more; in more abundant jobs; in lashes without number; in prisons more; in danger of death many times.
24 From the Jews five times I have received forty lashes minus one.
25 Three times I have been beaten with rods; once stoned; three times I have suffered shipwreck; One night and one day I have been shipwrecked on the high seas;
26 on roads many times; in dangers of rivers, dangers of thieves, dangers of my nation, dangers of the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers in the sea, dangers among false brothers;
27 in work and fatigue, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness;
28 and in addition to other things, what comes over me every day, concern for all the churches.
29 Who is sick, and I am not sick? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?
30 If it is necessary to boast, I will boast about my weakness.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that he did not lie.
32 In Damascus, the governor of the province of King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes to arrest me;
33 and I was let down from the wall in a basket through a window, and I escaped from his hands.
1 It certainly does not suit me to boast; but I will come to the visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I know a man in Christ, who fourteen years ago (if in the body, I do not know; if outside the body, I do not know; God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I do not know; God knows),
4 that he was caught up into paradise, where he heard ineffable words which it is not given to man to utter.
5 I will glory in such a man; But I will not boast of myself in anything except my weaknesses.
6 However, if he wanted to glorify me, he would not be foolish, because he would tell the truth; but he left it, so that no one thinks of me more than what he sees in me, or hears of me.
7 And so that the greatness of the revelations would not exalt me beyond measure, a thorn in my flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, so that I would not be exalted above measure;
8 Concerning which I have three times begged the Lord to take it away from me.
9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will most gladly glory in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10 Therefore, for Christ’s sake I rejoice in weaknesses, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses; because when I am weak, then I am strong.
11 I have made a fool of myself by boasting; you forced me to do it, because I had to be praised by you; because in nothing have I been less than those great apostles, although I am nothing.
12 Nevertheless the signs of an apostle have been done among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and miracles.
13 For in what have you been less than the other churches, except that I myself have not been a burden to you? Forgive me this offense!
14 Behold, for the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not seek what is yours, but you, since children should not treasure for their parents, but parents for their children.
15 And I will with the greatest pleasure spend what is mine, and even I will spend myself completely for the love of your souls, although loving you more, I am loved less.
16 But admitting this, that I was not a burden to you, but because I am crafty, I took you by deception,
17 Have I deceived you by any of those whom I have sent to you?
18 I prayed to Titus, and sent his brother with him. Did Tito deceive you? Have we not proceeded with the same spirit and in the same footsteps?
19 Do you still think that we apologize to you? Before God in Christ we speak; and everything, beloved, for your edification.
20 For I am afraid that when I come, I will not find you such as I want, and I will be found of you such as you do not want; May there be among you strife, envy, anger, divisions, slander, murmurings, arrogance, disorders;
21 that when I return, God may humble me among you, and perhaps I will have to weep for many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the filth and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.
1 This is the third time I have come to you. Through the mouth of two or three witnesses every matter will be decided.
2 I have said before, and now I say again as if I were present, and now absent I write it to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I go again, I will not be lenient;
3 for you seek proof that Christ speaks in me, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you.
4 For although he was crucified in weakness, he lives by the power of God. For we too are weak in him, but we will live with him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobate?
6 But I hope that you will know that we are not reprobate.
7 And we pray to God that you do no evil thing; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do good, even though we be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but through the truth.
9 Therefore we rejoice that we are weak, and that you are strong; and we still pray for your perfection.
10 For this reason I write to you while I am absent, so as not to use severity when I am present, according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up, and not for destroying.
11 Finally, brothers, have joy, be perfected, comfort each other, be of the same mind, and live in peace; and the God of peace and love will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13 All the saints greet you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
