Chapter 1
1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus the Anointed One by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the holy ones who are throughout Achaia:1:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus the Anointed One.1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,1:4Who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we may be able to comfort those in any tribulation with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.1:5For as the sufferings of the Anointed One abound toward us, so through the Anointed One our comfort also abounds.1:6And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation, which is at work in your enduring the same sufferings that we also suffer; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation.1:7And our hope for you is firm, knowing that as you share in the sufferings, so also you share in the comfort.1:8For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of our tribulation that came upon us in Asia: we were burdened beyond measure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.1:9Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,1:10Who delivered us from so great a death, and delivers us; in whom we have hoped that He will yet deliver us,1:11As you also help together by prayer for us, so that thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.1:12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity—not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God—we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.1:13For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand; and I hope you will understand even to the end,1:14As you also understood us in part, that we are your glorying, even as you also are ours, in the Day of the Lord Jesus.1:15And in this confidence I intended to come to you first, so that you might have a second favor,1:16And to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent on my way by you to Judea.1:17Therefore, when I intended this, did I act with fickleness? Or do I plan the things I plan according to the flesh, so that with me there should be “Yes, yes,” and “No, no”?1:18But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.1:19For the Son of God, Jesus the Anointed One, who was proclaimed among you through us—through me, Silas, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.1:20For as many as are the promises of God, in Him is the Yes, and in Him the So be it, to the glory of God through us.1:21And He who establishes us with you in the Anointed One, and who anointed us, is God,1:22Who also sealed us and gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.1:23But I call God as witness upon my soul: it was to spare you that I did not yet come to Corinth.1:24Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.Chapter 2
2:1But I resolved this within myself: not to come again to you in sorrow.2:2For if I make you sorrowful, then who makes me glad except the one made sorrowful by me?2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from those in whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.2:4For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears—not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love I have so abundantly for you.2:5But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused sorrow to me, but in part—not to burden you all.2:6Sufficient for such a one is this punishment, which was inflicted by the greater part,2:7So that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest such a one be swallowed up by excessive sorrow.2:8Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him.2:9For to this end I also wrote: that I might know your proven character, whether you are obedient in all things.2:10And whomever you forgive anything, I also forgive; for if I have forgiven anything, I forgave it for your sake in the presence of the Anointed One,2:11Lest Satan take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.2:12Now when I came to Troas for the good news of the Anointed One, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,2:13I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking leave of them, I departed for Macedonia.2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in the Anointed One, and through us makes known the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.2:15For we are a pleasing aroma of the Anointed One to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:2:16To the one an aroma from death to death, and to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?2:17For we are not like the many, peddling the word of God; but as from sincerity, as from God, before God, we speak in the Anointed One.Chapter 3
3:1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you or from you?3:2You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,3:3Plainly shown to be a letter of the Anointed One ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh—the heart.3:4And such confidence we have through the Anointed One toward God.3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,3:6Who also made us sufficient as servants of the New Covenant—not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.3:7But if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the glory of his face—which was passing away—3:8How will the ministry of the Spirit not be still more in glory?3:9For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.3:10For even what was made glorious has no glory in this respect, because of the glory that surpasses it.3:11For if what was passing away came through glory, much more what remains is in glory.3:12Therefore, having such hope, we use great boldness of speech,3:13And are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel might not gaze upon the end of what was passing away.3:14But their minds were hardened; for to this day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the Old Covenant, because it is taken away in the Anointed One.3:15But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.3:16But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.3:18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.Chapter 4
4:1Therefore, having this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart.4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.4:3But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,4:4In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the good news of the glory of the Anointed One, who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.4:5For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus the Anointed One as Lord, and ourselves as your servants because of Jesus.4:6For it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus the Anointed One.4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.4:8We are pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;4:9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;4:10Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.4:11For we who live are always being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.4:12So then, death works in us, but life in you.4:13And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, and therefore we also speak,4:14Knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us up through Jesus and will present us with you.4:15For all things are for your sake, so that grace, having multiplied through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.4:16Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outward man is wasting away, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.4:17For our momentary light affliction is working for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,4:18While we do not look to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are eternal.Chapter 5
5:1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is taken down, we have a building from God—an eternal house in the heavens, not made with hands.5:2For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling that is from Heaven,5:3If indeed, having been clothed, we will not be found naked.5:4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened—not because we wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.5:5Now He who prepared us for this very thing is God, who also gave us the pledge of the Spirit.5:6Therefore we are always of good courage, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord—5:7For we walk by faith, not by sight—5:8We are of good courage, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.5:9Therefore we also make it our aim, whether at home or away, to be pleasing to Him.5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of the Anointed One, so that each one may receive back the things done through the body, according to what he did, whether good or evil.5:11Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are plainly known to God, and I hope also to be plainly known in your consciences.5:12For we do not commend ourselves to you again, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who glory in appearance and not in heart.5:13For whether we were beside ourselves, it was for God; or whether we are of sound mind, it is for you.5:14For the love of the Anointed One compels us, having judged this: that if One died for all, then all died.5:15And He died for all, so that those who live may no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised.5:16Therefore, from now on we know no one according to the flesh; and even if we have known the Anointed One according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.5:17Therefore, if anyone is in the Anointed One, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.5:18And all things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus the Anointed One and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,5:19Namely, that God was in the Anointed One reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and having entrusted to us the word of reconciliation.5:20Therefore we are ambassadors on behalf of the Anointed One, as though God were entreating through us. We implore you on behalf of the Anointed One: be reconciled to God.5:21He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.Chapter 6
6:1And as fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—6:2For He says, “In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is an acceptable time; behold, now is a day of salvation.6:3Giving no cause of offense in anything, so that the ministry may not be blamed,6:4But in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,6:5In beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings,6:6In purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,6:7In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,6:8Through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;6:9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and yet not put to death;6:10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.6:11Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is enlarged.6:12You are not restricted in us, but you are restricted in your own affections.6:13Now in return—I speak as to children—you also enlarge your hearts.6:14Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?6:15And what harmony has the Anointed One with the Worthless One? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?6:16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God, as God said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.6:17Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch an unclean thing; and I will receive you,6:18And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.”Chapter 7
7:1Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.7:2Make room for us: we wronged no one; we ruined no one; we defrauded no one.7:3I do not say this to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.7:4Great is my boldness toward you; great is my glorying on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I overflow with joy in all our tribulation.7:5For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side: conflicts outside, fears within.7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,7:7And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, declaring to us your longing, your lamentation, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.7:8For even if I made you sorrowful by the letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that the letter made you sorrowful, even if only for a time.7:9Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to God, so that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.7:10For sorrow according to God produces repentance leading to salvation, without regret; but the sorrow of the world produces death.7:11For behold this very thing—your being made sorrowful according to God—what diligence it produced in you! What defense, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In everything you proved yourselves pure in the matter.7:12Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who did wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but so that our care for you might be revealed to you before God.7:13Because of this we have been comforted in your comfort; and we rejoiced still more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.7:14For if I boasted anything to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved true.7:15And his affections are all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.7:16Therefore I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.Chapter 8
8:1Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God given among the assemblies of Macedonia:8:2that in a great trial of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the riches of their generosity.8:3For according to their ability, I testify—and beyond their ability—they gave willingly,8:4begging us with much entreaty for the grace and fellowship of the ministry to the holy ones.8:5And not as we expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us through the will of God,8:6so that we urged Titus that, as he had begun before, he should also complete this grace among you.8:7But as you abound in everything—in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love toward us—see that you abound also in this grace.8:8I do not speak by command, but through the diligence of others I am also testing the genuineness of your love.8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One: though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that through His poverty you might become rich.8:10And in this I give my judgment, for this is profitable for you, who began a year ago not only to do, but also to desire it.8:11Now also finish the doing of it, so that as there was readiness to desire it, so there may also be completion from what you have.8:12For if the willingness is present, it is accepted according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.8:13For this is not so that others may have relief and you be burdened,8:14but that there may be equality: at the present time your abundance supplies their need, so that their abundance also may supply your need, and there may be equality.8:15As it is written: “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”8:16But thanks be to God, who put the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus.8:17For he indeed accepted the exhortation; and being very diligent, he went to you of his own accord.8:18And we sent with him the brother whose praise in the good news is throughout all the assemblies.8:19And not only so, but he was also chosen by the assemblies as our fellow-traveler with this grace ministered by us, to the glory of the Lord Himself and as proof of our willingness.8:20We are taking this care, lest anyone should blame us concerning this abundance ministered by us,8:21providing what is honorable, not only before the Lord, but also before men.8:22And we sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, and now much more diligent because of his great confidence in you.8:23As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow-worker toward you; as for our brothers, they are messengers of the assemblies, the glory of the Anointed One.8:24Therefore show them, before the assemblies, the proof of your love and of our glorying on your behalf.Chapter 9
9:1For concerning the ministry to the holy ones, it is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you,9:2for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to the Macedonians: that Achaia has been prepared for a year; and your zeal stirred up most of them.9:3But I sent the brothers so that our glorying on your behalf might not be made empty in this respect, and that, as I said, you might be ready,9:4lest, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say you—should be put to shame in this confidence of glorying.9:5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go ahead to you and prepare beforehand your promised blessing, so that it might be ready as a blessing, and not as an exaction.9:6And remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.9:7Let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not out of sorrow or necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.9:8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that, always having all sufficiency in everything, you may abound to every good work.9:9As it is written: “He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”9:10And may He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,9:11enriching you in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.9:12For the ministry of this service not only supplies the needs of the holy ones, but also overflows through many thanksgivings to God.9:13Through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the good news of the Anointed One, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,9:14while in their supplication for you they long for you because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.9:15Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!Chapter 10
10:1Now I, Paul, myself urge you through the meekness and gentleness of the Anointed One—I who in presence am indeed humble among you, but being absent am bold toward you.10:2And I ask that, when present, I may not need to be bold with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some who regard us as walking according to the flesh.10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.10:4For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but powerful through God for pulling down strongholds,10:5pulling down arguments and every high thing raised against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of the Anointed One,10:6and being ready to avenge every disobedience whenever your obedience is fulfilled.10:7You look at the outward appearance. If anyone trusts in himself that he is the Anointed One’s, let him consider this again within himself: that as he is the Anointed One’s, so also are we the Anointed One’s.10:8For even if I glory somewhat more abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame,10:9lest I seem as though I would terrify you through my letters.10:10“For his letters,” one says, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”10:11Let such a one consider this: that what we are in word through letters when absent, such also we will be in deed when present.10:12For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.10:13But we will not glory beyond measure, but according to the measure of the sphere that God apportioned to us—a measure reaching even to you.10:14For we do not overstretch ourselves, as though not reaching to you, for we came even to you in the good news of the Anointed One.10:15We do not glory beyond measure in other men’s labors; but we have hope that, as your faith grows, we will be greatly enlarged among you within our sphere,10:16to proclaim the good news in the places beyond you, not to glory in another’s sphere concerning things already prepared.10:17But “he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”10:18For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.Chapter 11
11:1I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness! Indeed, bear with me.11:2For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Anointed One.11:3But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Anointed One.11:4For if indeed one comes preaching another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another good news which you did not accept, you bear with him well!11:5For I reckon that I was in nothing behind the most eminent apostles.11:6And even if I am untrained in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in every way and in all things we have made this evident among you.11:7Did I commit sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I freely proclaimed the good news of God to you?11:8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them to serve you.11:9And when I was present with you and in need, I burdened no one, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked; and in everything I kept myself from burdening you, and will continue to do so.11:10As the truth of the Anointed One is in me, this glorying will not be silenced in me throughout the regions of Achaia.11:11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!11:12But what I do, I also will do, so that I may cut off the occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in what they glory they may be found even as we are.11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of the Anointed One.11:14And no wonder—for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.11:15Therefore it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.11:16Again I say, let no one think me a fool; but if otherwise, receive me even as a fool, so that I also may glory a little.11:17What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.11:18Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory.11:19For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!11:20For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you on the face.11:21I say this to our shame, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever anyone is bold—I speak in foolishness—I also am bold.11:22Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I also.11:23Are they servants of the Anointed One? I speak as one out of his mind—I am more: in labors more abundantly, in lashes beyond measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.11:24Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.11:25Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have spent in the deep.11:26In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;11:27in labor and hardship, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.11:28Apart from the things outside, there is that which presses upon me daily: the care of all the assemblies.11:29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn?11:30If it is necessary to glory, I will glory in the things of my weakness.11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One, who is blessed throughout the ages, knows that I do not lie.11:32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me;11:33and I was let down through a window in a basket through the wall, and escaped from his hands.Chapter 12
12:1To glory is indeed not profitable for me, but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.12:2I know a man in the Anointed One who, fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.12:3And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows—12:4that he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words which it is not permitted for a man to speak.12:5Of such a one I will glory; but of myself I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.12:6For if I wish to glory, I will not be a fool, for I will speak truth; but I refrain, lest anyone should reckon concerning me above what he sees in me or hears from me.12:7And lest I should be exalted beyond measure by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to strike me, lest I should be exalted beyond measure.12:8Concerning this I called upon the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.12:9And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather glory in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Anointed One may rest upon me.12:10Therefore I am well pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, and in distresses for the Anointed One; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.12:11I have become a fool in glorying—you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.12:12Indeed, the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all endurance, in signs, wonders, and mighty deeds.12:13For in what were you inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!12:14Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.12:15And I will most gladly spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, loving you more abundantly, I am loved less.12:16But be it so: I did not burden you. Yet, being crafty, I caught you by deceit.12:17Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?12:18I urged Titus and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?12:19Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in the Anointed One; and all things, beloved, are for your building up.12:20For I fear lest, when I come, I may not find you such as I desire, and I may be found by you such as you do not desire; lest there be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, rivalries, slanders, whisperings, arrogance, and disorders;12:21lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn over many who sinned before and did not repent of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they practiced.Chapter 13
13:1This third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.”13:2I warned you before, and now warn you beforehand—as I did when present the second time, so now while absent I write to those who sinned before and to all the rest: if I come again, I will not spare,13:3since you seek a proof of the Anointed One speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful in you.13:4For even if He was crucified through weakness, yet He lives through the power of God; for we also are weak in Him, but we will live with Him through the power of God toward you.13:5Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves, that Jesus the Anointed One is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?13:6But I hope that you will know that we have not failed the test.13:7And I pray to God that you do no evil—not so that we may appear approved, but so that you may do what is right, though we may appear to have failed the test.13:8For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.13:9For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong; and we also pray for this: your restoration.13:10Therefore, being absent, I write these things so that, being present, I may not treat you sharply, according to the authority that the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice; be restored; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.13:12Greet one another with a holy kiss.13:13All the holy ones greet you.13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus the Anointed One, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all! So be it.