2 Corinthians

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ"s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.