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2 CORINTHIANS (with Strong’s numbers)

2 Corinthians has not had the English modernized yet, except for occasional verses. Word processing has been done, particularly replacement of obsolete words.

2 Corinthians 1: PAUL a herald* of Yeshua the Messiah, by the good pleasure of God; and Timothy a brother; to the assembly of God in Corinth, and to all the Saints that are in all Achaia. 2 *merciful kindness* be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. 3 Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation; 4 who comforts us in all our afflictions, that we also might be able to comfort those who are in all afflictions, with the consolation wherewith we are comforted by God. 5 For, as the sufferings of the Messiah abound in us, so also our consolation abounds by the Messiah. 6 Whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your life that we are afflicted; or whether we be comforted, it is, that you may be comforted; and that there may be in you an eagerness, whereby you may endure those sufferings which we also suffer. 7 Our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know, that if you partake of the sufferings, you will also partake of the consolation. 8 But, my brethren, we wish you to know, respecting the affliction that was upon us in Asia, that we were afflicted exceedingly, beyond our strength, insomuch that our life was ready to terminate. 9 We passed a sentence of death upon ourselves, that our confidence might not be in ourselves, but in God, who raises up the dead; 10 who rescued us from imminent death: and we hope that he will again rescue us, 11 by the aid of your prayers in our behalf; so that his gift to us may be a favor done for the sake of many, and many may praise him on our account. 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the *merciful kindness* of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you. 13 We write no other things to you, than those which you know and acknowledge. And I trust, you will acknowledge them to the end: 14 as you have also partially acknowledged that we are your rejoicing, as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. 15 In this confidence, I was before disposed to come to you, that you might receive the *merciful kindness* doubly; 16 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and again to come to you from Macedonia, and so you would accompany me to Judea. 17 So when I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no? 18 God is the witness, that our word to you was not Yes and No. 19 For the Son of God, Yeshua the Messiah, who was preached to you by us, namely, by me, by Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and No; but it was Yes in him. 20 For all the promises of God in him, the Messiah, are Yes; for which cause, we thru him give our Amen, to the praise of God. 21 Now it is God who establishes us, with you, in the Messiah, and has anointed us, 22 and has sealed us, and has given the earnest of his Spirit in our hearts. 23 Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, that it was in order to spare you, that I didn’t come to Corinth. 24 Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 2: And I determined this myself, that I would not again come to you in sadness. 2 For if I should make you sad, who would make me joyful, unless he who I had made sad? 3 I wrote that very thing to you, for fear that when I came, those persons who I should make joyful, should make me sad. For I have confidence concerning you, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 In much affliction, and in anguish of heart, I wrote those things to you, with many tears; not that you might have sorrow, but that you might know the exceeding love I have for you. 5 If one has caused grief, he has not grieved me only, but,-that the declaration may not bear too hard on you-in a measure, all of you. 6 This rebuke proceeding from many is sufficient for him: 7 so that, on the other hand, you should *disregard his offences* [863] and console him; because such a man might be consumed with overwhelming grief. 8 So I implore you, to confirm your love for him. 9 For it was for this reason that I previously wrote to you, that I might learn by a trial, whether you would be obedient in everything. 10 who you forgive, I also forgive: for that which I forgave to any one, for your sakes I forgave it, in the presence of the Messiah; 11 for fear that Satan should overreach us; for we know his devices. 12 Moreover, when I came to Troas in announcing the Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, 13 there was no quietude in my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother: and I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia. 14 But thanks be to God, who always procures us a triumph in the Messiah, and manifests by us the odor of the knowledge of him in every place. 15 For, thru the Messiah, we are to God a sweet odor, in those who live and in those who perish: 16 to these, an odor of death to death; and to those, an odor of life to life. And who is adequate to these things! 17 For we are not like others, who dilute the words of God; but as of the truth, and as of God, we speak in the Messiah before God.

2 Corinthians 3: Do we begin again to show you who we are? Or do we, like others, need that letters recommendatory of us should be written to you? Or, that you should write recommendations of us? 2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, and known and read by every man. 3 For you know that you are an letter of the Messiah, ministered by us; not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on the tablets of the mind of flesh. 4 Such confidence have we in the Messiah towards God. 5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing as of ourselves; but our efficiency is from God: 6 who has fitted us to be deacons* [1249, diakonos] of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the praise upon his face which vanished away; 8 how then will not the ministration of the Spirit be still more glorious? 9 For if there was praise in the ministration of condemnation, how much more will the ministration of justification excel in glory? 10 For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excells in glory. 11 For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more must that which abides be glorious. 12 Seeing therefore we have this hope, we the more speak with boldness; 13 and are not like Moses, who threw a veil over his face, that the children of Israel might not see the termination of that which was abolished. 14 But they were blinded in their understanding; for until this day, when the Old Testament is read, the same veil rests on them; nor is it manifest to them, that it is abolished by the Messiah. 15 To this day, when Moses is read, a veil is thrown upon their hearts. 16 But when any of them is turned to the Lord, the veil is taken from him. 17 Now the Lord himself is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 We all, with uncovered faces, see as in a mirror the praise of the Lord; and are transformed into the same likeness, from praise to glory, as by the Lord the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4: Therefore, we are not weary in this ministry which we have received, according to the mercies that have been on us: 2 But we have renounced the concealments of dishonor, and we dont walk in craftiness, nor do we treat the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth, we exhibit ourselves to all the consciences of men before God. 3 If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who perish; 4 to those whose minds the god of this world has blinded, in order that they might not believe, for fear that the light of the *Good News* of the praise of the Messiah (who is the likeness of God) should dawn on them. 5 For it is not ourselves who we preach, but the Messiah, Yeshua our Lord; and, as to ourselves, that we are your servants for Yeshua’s sake. 6 Because God, who commanded the light to arise from darkness, has himself shined in our hearts, that we might be illuminated with the knowledge of the praise of God on the face of Yeshua the Messiah. 7 But we have this treasure in an earthen vessel, that the excellency of the power might be from God, and not from us. 8 In everything we are oppressed, but not suffocated; we are corrected, but not condemned; 9 we are persecuted, but not forsaken; we are prostrated, but not perishing. 10 For we bear in our body, at all times, the dying of Yeshua; that the life also of Yeshua might be manifested in our body. 11 For if we are delivered over alive to death, for Yeshua’s sake, even so also will the life of Yeshua be manifested in this our mortal body. 12 Now therefore, in us death is active, but in you, life. 13 Having therefore the same spirit of faith, (as it is written, I believed, therefore also have I spoken,) we also believe, and therefore speak; 14 knowing that he, who resuscitated our Lord Yeshua, will also resuscitate us by Yeshua, and will receive us, with you, to himself. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that while *merciful kindness* abounds by means of many, thanksgiving may abound to the praise of God. 16 For this [reason] we faint not; for tho our outward man perishes, yet the inner man is renovated day by day. 17 For the affliction of the present time, tho very small and light, prepares for us great glory, without end, forever and ever; 18 while we dont look at these seen things, but at those not seen; for these seen things are temporary, but those not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5: For we know that, if our house on earth-this of the body, were dissolved, yet we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. 2 On this account also, we groan, and wish to be clothed with our house from heaven: 3 if indeed, when clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are here in this house, we groan under its burden; yet you desire, not to throw it off; but to be clothed over it, so that its mortality may be absorbed in life. 5 He who prepares us for this thing, is God: who has given us the earnest of his Spirit. 6 Therefore, because we know and are persuaded, that while we lodge in the body we sojourn away from our Lord; 7 (for we walk by faith, and not by sight;) 8 therefore we are confident, and desirous to be away from the body, and to be with our Lord. 9 We are assiduous, that whether we are absent, or whether at home, we may please him. 10 For we are all to stand before the judgment-seat of the Messiah, that each may receive retribution in the body, for what he has done in it, whether of good, or whether of evil. 11 Therefore because we know the fear of our Lord we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also, we are made manifest to your minds. 12 We do not again laud ourselves to you; but we give you occasion to praise in us, to those who praise in appearance and not in heart. 13 For if we are extravagant, it is for God: and if we are discreet, it is for you. 14 For the love of the Messiah constrains us to reason [in this way]: One died for all; therefore are all dead. 15 He died for all, that they who live should not live to themselves, but to him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, we know no person after the flesh: and if we have known the Messiah after the flesh, yet [from now on] we dont know him any more. 17 So whoever is in the Messiah, is a new creature: old things have passed away; 18 and all things are made new, by God; who has reconciled us to himself by the Messiah, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 For God was in the Messiah, who has reconciled the world with his majesty, and didn’t reckon to them their sins; and who has placed in us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore ambassadors for the Messiah, and it is as if God was imploring you by us. In behalf of the Messiah, so, we implore you, to be reconciled to God. 21 For, on your account, he has made him who knew no sin to be sin, that we might by him become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 6: As aids we entreat of you, that the *merciful kindness* of God which you have received, may not be ineffective in you. 2 For he has said, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in the day of life I have aided you. Look, now is the acceptable time! and look, now is the day of life! 3 Give no occasion of offence to anyone in anything, that there may be no reproach on our ministry. 4 But we, in all things, would show ourselves to be the deacons* [1249, diakonos] of Yehovah’, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessity, in distresses, 5 in scourgings, in imprisonment, in tumults, in toil, in watching, in fasting; 6 by purity, by knowledge, by long suffering, by benignity, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned, 7 by the speaking of truth, by the energy of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; 8 amid honor and dishonor, amid praise and insult; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 as not known, and yet we are well known; as dying, and look, we live; as chastised, yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as indigent, yet enriching many; as possessing nothing, yet having all things. 11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is opened towards you, and our mind expanded. 12 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own love* [1]. 13 I speak as to my children, Pay me the debt which you owe, and expand your love towards me. 14 Dont be yoked [together] with those who dont believe; for what fellowship has righteousness with Lawlessness*, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what concord has the Messiah with Satan? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement does the temple of God have with demons? For you are the temple of the living God; as it is said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 So come out from among them, and be separate from them, says the Lord; and dont come near the unclean thing, and I will receive you; 18 and will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

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2 Corinthians 7: Seeing that we have these promises, my beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit; and let’s work righteousness, in the fear of God. 2 Bear with us, my brethren; we have done evil to no one; we have corrupted no one; we have wronged no one. 3 I speak thus, not to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are treasured in our hearts, to die and to live together. 4 I have great assurance before you, and have much glorying in you; and I am full of comfort. And joy greatly abounds to me, in all my afflictions. 5 For, after we came to Macedonia, there was no rest for our body, but we were distressed in everything; outside was conflict, and inside was fear. 6 But God who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the arrival of Titus. 7 Not merely by his arrival, but also by the refreshing with which he was refreshed by you. For he told us of your love towards us, and of your grief, and of your zeal in our behalf: and when I heard it, I had great joy. 8 Altho I made you sad by the letter, I dont regret it, tho I did regret it; for I see that that letter, tho for a time it made you sad, 9 yet it procured me joy, not because you had sorrow, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance; for you sorrowed in godly sorrow; so that you received no detriment from us. 10 For, sorrowing on account of God, works a conversion of the soul which is not reversed, and a turning to life: but the sorrowing of the world works death. 11 For behold this same thing, that you were distressed on account of God, what solicitude it wrought in you, and apologizing and indignation, and fear, and love, and zeal, and revenge? And in all things you have shown, that you are now pure in that matter. 12 it will be seen that I wrote to you, not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who received the wrong, only, but that your solicitude in respect to us might be known before God. 13 Therefore we were comforted; and with our consolation, we were more joyful for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all: 14 so that I was not ashamed of that in which I had gloried to him, respecting you; but as in every thing we spoke the truth to you, so also our glorying before Titus, is found to be in truth: 15 and also his bowels are the more enlarged towards you, while he remembers the submission of you all, and how you received him with fear and trembling. 16 I rejoice, that in every thing I have full confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 8: My brethren, we make known to you the *merciful kindness* of God which was conferred on the churches of the Macedonians; 2 that in the great trial of their affliction, there was an abounding to their joy, and the depth of their poverty was exuberant in the riches of their liberality. 3 For I testify that, according to their ability, and beyond their ability, in the spontaneity of their mind, 4 they sought us, with much entreaty, that they might participate in the beneficence of the ministration to the Saints. 5 Not only as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God. 6 So that we requested Titus, that as he had begun, so he would perfect in you also the same beneficence. 7 As you are enriched in every thing, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in our love towards you, so abound in this beneficence also. 8 I do not actually command you, but by the promptitude of your fellow disciples, I would test the sincerity of your love. 9 For you know the goodness of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who when he was rich, for your sakes became poor, that by his poverty you might be made rich. 10 I urgently recommend to you, that which is for your advantage; inasmuch as you began, a year ago, not only to purpose, but also to perform. 11 Now complete you by action, what you purposed; that as you had a promptitude in your purposing, so you may fulfill it in action, according to your ability. 12 For if there is a willingness, a person is accepted according to what he has, and not according to what he doesn’t have. 13 For it is not, that others may have easement, and you pressure; 14 but that you may be on equality at the present time; and that your abundance may be a supply to their want; that their abundance likewise may be a supply to your want; that there may be equality. 15 As it is written, He who gathered much, had nothing over; and he who gathered little, was not deficient. 16 But thanks be to God, who put into the mind of Titus this solicitude for you. 17 For he received our exhortation; and, because he was very anxious, he cheerfully set out to visit you. 18 We also sent with him that our brother, whose praise in the *Good News* is in all the churches; 19 inasmuch as he likewise had been expressly chosen by the churches, to accompany me with this beneficence which is ministered by us to the praise of God and to our cordiality. 20 We hereby guarded, that no one should cast censure on us, in respect to this abundance which is ministered by us. 21 For we are attentive to things commendable, not only before God, but also before men. 22 We also sent with those who brother of ours, who has often, and in many things, been proved diligent by us; and is now particularly diligent, from the great confidence he has in you. 23 So if Titus is inquired about, he is my associate and assistant among you: or if our other brethren, they are the heralds* of the assemblies of the Messiah’s glory. 24 Therefore exhibit to them, in the presence of all the assemblies, a demonstration of your love and of our glorying respecting you.

2 Corinthians 9: Concerning the ministering by the Saints, it would be superfluous for me to write to you: 2 for I know the goodness of your mind; and so I gloried of you before the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has excited many. 3 Yet I sent the brethren, for fear that the glorying with which we have gloried in you in regard to this matter, should prove vain; and that you, as I said, may be ready; 4 so that, if the Macedonians should come with me, and should find you unprepared, we’re not to say, that you should be put to shame for that glorying in which we gloried. 5 Therefore I was careful to request these my brethren, to go before me to you, that they might make up this benefaction, of which you were advised long before to have it ready, as being a benefaction, and not a matter of cupidity. 6 This I say: He who sows sparingly, will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully, will also reap bountifully. 7 Every man, according to his own views, not with sadness, not by constraint: for the Lord loves a joyous giver. 8 For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that you may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work. 9 As it is written, He has dispersed and given to the poor; and his righteousness is established for ever. 10 Now he that gives seed to the sower, and bread for food, may he give and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: 11 so that in everything, you may be enriched to all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God. 12 For the performance of this ministering, not only supplies the want of the Saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God. 13 For on account of the test of this ministry, we glorify God, that you do subject yourselves to the profession of the *Good News* of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, you communicate with them and with all men: 14 and they put up prayer for you, with much love, because of the abundance of the *merciful kindness* of God that is upon you. 15 Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

2 Corinthians 10: Now I, Paul, implore you, by the mildness and gentleness of the Messiah, altho I am mild towards you when present, but bold towards you when absent! 2 yet I implore you that, when I come, I may not be compelled by the boldness that is in me to be daring, as I estimate it, towards the people who think we walk according to the flesh. 3 For, altho we walk in the flesh, our warfare is not after the flesh. 4 For the arms of our warfare are not those of the flesh, but those of the power of God; by which we subdue rebellious castles. 5 We demolish imaginations, and every lofty thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and subjugate all reasonings to obedience to the Messiah. 6 We are prepared, when your obedience will be complete, to execute judgment on all the disobeying. 7 Do you look on outward appearances? If any one is confident in himself that he is of the Messiah, let him know, from himself, that as he is of the Messiah, and so are we. 8 For if I should praise somewhat more, in the authority which our Lord has given me, I should not be ashamed; for he gave it to us for your edification, and not for your destruction. 9 But I forbear, for fear that [I should terrify you] by my epistles. 10 For there are some who say, His epistles are weighty and forcible, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 But let him who says so, consider this, that such as we are in our epistolary discourse, when absent, such also are we in action, when present. 12 For we dare not value, or compare ourselves, with those who vaunt: but they, because they compare themselves with themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not praise beyond our measure, but within the measure of the limits which God has imparted to us, that we should reach as far as you. 14 For we do not stretch ourselves, as if not reaching to you; for we do reach as far as you in the annunciation of the Messiah. 15 We do not praise beyond our measure, in the toil of others: but we have the hope, that when your faith will mature, we will be magnified by you, as being within our measure; 16 and that we will so abound also, as to make announcements beyond you. It is not in the measure of others, and in things ready prepared, that we will glory. 17 But let him who will glory, praise in the Lord. 18 For [it is] not he who praises himself [who] is approved; but he who the Lord praises.

2 Corinthians 11: I would that you could bear with me a little, that I might talk foolishly: and indeed, bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you, with a godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to a husband as a chaste virgin, who I would present to the Messiah. 3 But I fear that as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from sincerity [572] towards the Messiah. 4 For if he who comes to you, had proclaimed to you another Yeshua, who we have not proclaimed; or if you had received another Spirit that you have not received; or another *“Good News”* that you have not accepted; you might well have given assent. 5 For, I suppose, I didn’t come short of those heralds* who excel most. 6 For, tho I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been manifest among you. 7 Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling myself that you might be exalted? and by proclaiming the *Good News* of God to you gratis? 8 I robbed other assemblies, and I took pay of them for ministering to you. 9 When I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you. 10 As the truth of the Messiah is in me, this glorying will not be made vain as to me in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows. 12 But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 13 For they are *false heralds* [5570], crafty hirelings* [2040], impersonating* heralds* of the Messiah. 14 It’s no wonder [2298], for if Satan impersonates a Messenger* of light, 15 it is no great surprise if his deacons* [1249, diakonos] impersonate* deacons of righteousness; whose *end state* [5056] is a consequence of their works. 16 Again I say, let no one think of me, as a fool: or if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may praise a little. 17 What I am now saying, I dont say in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying. 18 Because many praise after the flesh, I also will glory. 19 For you hear with indulgence them who lack reason, seeing you are wise. 20 You give ear to him, who puts you in bondage; and to him, who devours you; and to him, who takes from you; and to him, who exalts himself over you; and to him, who smites your face. 21 I speak as if under contempt: I speak as if we were impotent, thru deficiency of understanding; that in whatever thing any one is presuming, I am also presuming. 22 If they are Hebrews, so I also: or if they are Israelites, I also. If they are the seed of Abraham, I also. 23 If they are deacons of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times. 24 By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods: at one time I was stoned: three times I was in shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in the sea, without a ship. 26 In journeys many, in peril by rivers, in peril by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from [foreigners]: I have been in peril in cities; I have been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in peril from false brethren. 27 In toil and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and nakedness: 28 besides many other things, and the throngs around me every day, and my anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I not weak? Who is stumbled, and I dont burn? 30 If I must glory, I will praise in my infirmities. 31 God, the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, blessed for ever and ever, he knows that I dont lie. 32 At Damascus, the commander of the army of Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to seize me. 33 From a window, in a basket, they let me down from the wall, and I escaped from his hands.

2 Corinthians 12: Glorying must be, but it is not profitable: so I proceed to visions and revelations of our Lord. 2 I knew a man in the Messiah fourteen years ago, (but whether in a body, or whether out of a body, I dont know; God knows:) who was caught up to the third region of heaven. 3 I knew this same man; (but whether in a body, or out of a body, I know not; God knows;) 4 and he was caught up to Paradise, and heard ineffable words, which it is not permitted a man to utter. 5 Of him I will glory: but of myself I will not glory, except in my infirmities. 6 Yet if I were disposed to glory, I should not be without reason; for I declare the truth. But I refrain, for fear that any one should think of me, beyond what he sees in me and hears from me. 7 That I might not be uplifted by the excellency of the revelations, there was imparted to me a thorn in my flesh, the angel of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be uplifted. 8 Respecting this, three times I besought my Lord, that it might depart from me. 9 He said to me, My *merciful kindness* is sufficient for you; for my power is perfected in weakness. Gladly, therefore, will I praise in my infirmities, that the power of the Messiah may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I have pleasure in infirmities, in reproach, in afflictions, in persecutions, in distresses, which are for the Messiah’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 11 Look, I have become foolish in my glorying, for you compelled me. For you should bear witness for me; because I was inferior in nothing to those heralds* who excel most, altho I was nothing. 12 I wrought among you the signs of the emissaries*, with all patience; and in prodigies, and in wonders, and in mighty deeds. 13 For in what you fell short of the other assemblies; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Please disregard* [863] my fault. 14 Now, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I dont seek yours, but you: for children should not lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children. 15 Cheerfully will I both pay my expenses, and also give myself for your souls; altho the more I love you, the less you love me. 16 But perhaps, tho I was not burdensome to you, yet, like a cunning man, I filched from you by craftiness! 17 Was it by the hand of some other person who I sent to you, that I pilfered from you? 18 I requested Titus, and with him I sent the brethren: did Titus pilfer any thing from you? Did we not walk in one spirit, and in the same steps? 19 Do you again suppose, that we would apologize to you? Before God, in the Messiah we speak: and all these things, my beloved, are for the sake of your edification. 20 For I fear, for fear that I should come to you and not find you such as I would wish; and for fear that I also should be found by you, such as you would not wish; for fear that there should be contention, and envying, and anger, and obstinacy, and slandering, and murmuring, and insolence, and commotion; 21 lest, when I come to you, my God should humble me; and I should mourn over many, who have sinned, and have not repented of the impurity, the immorality, and the lasciviousness that they have committed.

2 Corinthians 13: This is the third time that I have prepare to come to you; that, by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established. 2 I have said before told you, and again I say to you beforehand, (as also I told you a second time, while I was with you; and now also, while absent, I write to those who have sinned and to the others,) that if I come again, I will not spare: 3 because you demand proof, that it is the Messiah that speaks by me, who has not been powerless among you, but powerful among you. 4 For, tho he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives with the power of God. We also are weak with him; yet we are alive with him, by that power of God which is among you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether you stand in the faith: prove yourselves. dont you acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? And if he is not, you are reprobates. 6 But, I trust, you will know that we are not reprobates. 7 I implore God, that there may be no evil in you, so that the proof of us may appear: and yet, that you may be doers of good things, tho we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 We rejoice, when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray for, that you may be perfected. 10 Therefore, while absent, I write these things; for fear that when I come, I should act with rigor, according to the authority which my Lord has given me for your edification, and not for your destruction. 11 Finally, my brethren, rejoice, and be perfected, and be comforted: and may harmony and quietness be among you; and the God of love and of peace will be with you. 12 Salute you one another, with a holy kiss. All the Saints salute you. 13 The peace of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

End of the second letter to the Corinthians, that was written from Philippi of Macedonia, and was sent by Titus.

* An asterisk indicates that a word* or *the wording* differs significantly from the Murdock Translation.