⁶ But ^(A)God, who comforts the humbled, ^(B)comforted us by the coming of ^(C)Titus;

¹³ For this reason we have been ^(A)comforted.

And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of ^(B)Titus, because his ^(C)spirit has been refreshed by you all. ¹⁴ For if in anything I have ^(D)boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before ^(E)Titus proved to be the truth. ¹⁵ And his ^[a]affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the ^(F)obedience of you all, how you received him with ^(G)fear and trembling. ¹⁶ I rejoice that in everything ^(H)I am encouraged about you.

⁶ So we ^(A)encouraged ^(B)Titus that as he had previously ^(C)made a beginning, so he would also complete in you ^(D)this gracious work as well.

¹⁶ But ^[a](A)thanks be to God who ^(B)puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of ^(C)Titus.

²³ As for ^(A)Titus, he is my ^(B)partner and fellow worker ^[a]among you; as for our ^(C)brothers, they are ^[b](D)messengers of the churches, ^(E)a glory to Christ.

¹⁸ I ^(A)encouraged ^(B)Titus to go, and I sent ^(C)the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did we not walk ^[a]in the same ^(D)spirit—^(E)in the very same steps?

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2 Then after fourteen years I ^(A)went up again to Jerusalem with ^(B)Barnabas, taking ^(C)Titus along also.

³ But not even ^(A)Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was ^(B)compelled to be circumcised.

¹⁰ for ^(A)Demas, having loved ^(B)this present age, has deserted me and gone to ^(C)Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to ^[a](D)Galatia, ^(E)Titus to Dalmatia.