Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness:

for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not.

I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.