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He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,
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I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea.
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But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”
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For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.
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For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved?
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I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy.
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Forgiveness for the Offender
If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely.
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The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.
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Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
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I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.
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Ministers of the New Covenant
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me,
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But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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Present Weakness and Resurrection Life
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.
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because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.
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Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
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So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
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And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
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God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.
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I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well.
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And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling.
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Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.
