¹⁴ For ^(A)whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you ^(B)was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.

⁴ Therefore ^(A)we ourselves boast about you ^(B)in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith ^(C)in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

²⁴ So give proof before the churches of your love and of ^(A)our boasting about you to these men.

⁴ I am acting with ^(A)great boldness toward you; ^(B)I have great pride in you; ^(C)I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

⁸ For even if I boast a little too much of ^(A)our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

² for I know your readiness, ^(A)of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready ^(B)since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. ³ But ^(C)I am sending^[a] the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, ^(D)as I said you would be. ⁴ Otherwise, if some Macedonians ^(E)come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.

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

¹⁸ As surely as ^(A)God is faithful, ^(B)our word to you has not been Yes and No. ¹⁹ For ^(C)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, ^(D)Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but ^(E)in him it is always Yes. ²⁰ For ^(F)all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our ^(G)Amen to God for his glory.