¹⁴ For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true.

⁴ so that ^(A)we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God ^(B)for your patience and faith ^(C)in all your persecutions and ^[a]tribulations that you endure,

²⁴ Therefore show to them, ^[a]and before the churches, the proof of your love and of our ^(A)boasting on your behalf.

^4 (A)Great is my boldness of speech toward you, ^(B)great is my boasting on your behalf. ^(C)I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

⁸ For even if I should boast somewhat more ^(A)about our authority, which the Lord gave ^[a]us for ^[b]edification and not for your destruction, ^(B)I shall not be ashamed—

² for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a ^(A)year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority. ^3 (B)Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready; ⁴ lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this ^[a]confident boasting.

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

¹⁸ But as God is ^(A)faithful, our ^[a]word to you was not Yes and No. ¹⁹ For ^(B)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, ^(C)Silvanus, and ^(D)Timothy—was not Yes and No, ^(E)but in Him was Yes. ^20 (F)For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.