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1:1	Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother: To God’sthe church of God at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia.
1:3	PraiseBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
1:5	For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort also overflows.
1:6	If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which isproduces experienced in youryou patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.
1:7	And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.
1:8	ForWe we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia:. weWe were completely overwhelmed — beyond our strength  — so that we even despaired of life itself.
1:9	Indeed, we personallyfelt that we had areceived deaththe sentence withinof ourselvesdeath, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
1:10	He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and Hehe will deliver us. We have put our hope in Himhim that Hehe will deliver us again
1:12	ForIndeed, this is our confidenceboast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-givengodly sincerity and purity, not by fleshlyhuman wisdom but by God’s grace.
1:13	NowFor we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely —
1:14	just as you have partially understood us — that we are your reason for pride, just as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
1:15	IBecause plannedof with this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so that you could have a doublesecond benefit,
1:16	and to govisit you on my way to Macedonia, withand your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be givenhelped a start by you on my journey to Judea.
1:17	SoNow when I planned this, was I irresponsibleof two minds? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneouslyat the same time?
1:19	For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whowhom waswe preachedproclaimed among you by us—by meSilvanus, Timothy, and SilvanusI and— Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”;.” onOn the contrary, ain finalhim “Yes”it hasis comealways in“Yes.” Him.
1:20	For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Himhim. Therefore, thethrough “Amen”him iswe also spokensay through“Amen” Himto bythe usglory forof God’s glory.
1:21	Now it is God who strengthens us, together with you, in Christ, and who has anointed us.
1:22	He has also sealedput his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment. in our hearts.
1:24	I do not mean that we havelord controlit ofover your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand byfirm in your faith.
2:4	For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart — not thatto cause you should be hurtpain, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.
2:5	If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree — not to exaggerate  — to all of you.
2:6	TheThis punishment inflicted by the majority is sufficient for that person.
2:7	As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, thishe one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.
2:10	IfAnyone you forgive anyone, I do too. For what I have forgiven — if I have forgiven anything — it is for youyour benefit in the presence of Christ.,
2:11	I have done this so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.
2:12	When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord opened a door for me.,
2:13	I had no rest in my spirit because I did not find my brother Titus. Instead, but I said good-bye to them and left for Macedonia.
2:14	But thanks be to God, who always putsleads us on display in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of Himhim in every place.
2:16	To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. AndWho who is competentadequate for thisthese things?
2:17	For we aredo not likemarket the manyword whoof market God’s message for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
3:2	You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, recognizedknown and read by everyone.
3:3	ItYou isshow clear that you are Christ’s letter, produceddelivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God  — not on tablets of stone tablets but on tablets thatof arehuman hearts. of flesh.
3:4	WeSuch haveis thisthe kind of confidence towardwe Godhave through Christ before God.
3:5	It is not that we are competent in ourselves to considerclaim anything as coming from ourselves, but our competenceadequacy is from God.
3:6	He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit producesgives life.
3:7	Now if the ministry ofthat brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to lookgaze directlysteadily at Moses’s face because of theits glory, fromwhich hiswas face—aset fadingaside, glory—
3:9	For if the ministry ofthat brought condemnation had glory, the ministry ofthat brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
3:11	For if what was fadingset awayaside was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.
3:12	ThereforeSince, havingthen, we have such a hope, we useact with great boldness.
3:13	We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face soto thatprevent the Israelites couldfrom notgazing staresteadily atuntil the end of the glory of what was fadingbeing awayset aside,
3:14	but their minds were closedhardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ.
3:15	EvenYet tostill this daytoday, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts,
4:2	Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful secret things, not walkingacting indeceitfully deceit or distorting the word of God’s message, but commending ourselves before God to every personeveryone’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.
4:4	In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers soto theykeep cannotthem seefrom seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
4:5	For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slavesservants becausefor ofJesus’s Jesussake.
4:8	We are pressuredafflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair;
4:10	We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealeddisplayed in our body.
4:11	For we who live are always being given over to death becausefor ofJesus’s Jesussake, so that Jesus’s life may also be revealeddisplayed in our mortal flesh.
4:12	So then, death worksis at work in us, but life in you.
4:14	WeFor we know that the Oneone who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us also with Jesus and present us with you.
4:15	Indeed, everything is for your benefit, so that, as grace, extendedextends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to increase to God’sthe glory of God.
5:1	For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwellingtent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.
5:2	Indeed, we groan in this bodytent, desiring to put on our heavenly dwelling from heaven,
5:5	AndNow the Oneone who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
5:6	So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
5:7	For we walk by faith, not by sight,.
5:8	andIn fact, we are confident, and satisfiedwe would prefer to be outaway offrom the body and at home with the Lord.
5:9	Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Himhim.
5:10	For we must all appear before the tribunaljudgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthlessevil.
5:11	Therefore, becausesince we know the fear of the Lord, we seektry to persuade people. WeWhat we are completelyis openplain beforeto God, and I hope weit areis completelyalso openplain to your consciences as well.
5:12	We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.
5:13	For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we haveare ain soundour right mind, it is for you.
5:14	For Christ’sthe love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion:, Ifthat Oneone died for all, thenand therefore all died.
5:15	And Hehe died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the Oneone who died for them and was raised.
5:16	From now on, then, we do not know anyone infrom a purelyworldly human wayperspective. Even if we have known Christ infrom a purelyworldly human wayperspective, yet now we no longer know Himhim in this way.
5:17	Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old thingshas have passed away, and looksee, the new thingshas have come.!
5:18	Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to Himselfhimself through Christ and gavehas given us the ministry of reconciliation:.
5:19	That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himselfhimself, not counting their trespasses against them, and Hehe has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
5:20	Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certainsince that God is appealingmaking his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”
5:21	He made the Oneone who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
6:1	Working together with Himhim, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’sthe grace of God in vain.”
6:2	For Hehe says: IAt heard you in an acceptable time, and I helpedlistened to you, and in the day of salvation I helped you. LookSee, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.!
6:3	We giveare nonot opportunitygiving foranyone stumblingan tooccasion anyonefor offense, so that the ministry will not be blamed.
6:4	ButInstead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardshiphardships, by difficulties,
6:7	by the messageword of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousness onfor the right hand and the left,
6:8	through glory and dishonor, through slander and good report; regarded as deceivers, yet true;
6:9	as unknown, yet recognized; as dying, andyet looksee — we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;
6:10	as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
6:12	YouWe are not limitedwithholding byour usaffection from you, but you are limitedwithholding byyours yourfrom own affectionsus.
6:13	I speak as to my children.; Asas a proper response, youopen shouldyour alsoheart be open to us.
6:14	Do not be mismatchedyoked together with unbelieversthose who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
6:16	And what agreement does the temple of God’s sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuarytemple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be Mymy people.
6:17	Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.
6:18	And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to Meme, says the Lord Almighty.
7:1	ThereforeSo then, dear friends, since we have suchthese promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completingbringing ourholiness sanctificationto completion in the fear of God.
7:2	AcceptMake room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, corrupted no one, defraudedtaken advantage of no one.
7:3	I don’t say this to condemn you, forsince I have already said that you are in our hearts, to livedie together and to dielive together.
7:4	I haveam greatvery confidencefrank inwith you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overcomeoverflowing with joy in all our afflictions.
7:5	In fact, when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest. Instead, we were troubled in every way: conflicts on the outside, fears insidewithin.
7:6	But God, who comforts the humbledowncast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
7:7	and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.
7:8	For even if I grieved you with my letter, I dodon’t not regret it—even. thoughAnd if I didregretted regret it — since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while. —
7:9	Now I now rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.
7:10	For godly grief produces a repentance notthat leads to besalvation regrettedwithout and leading to salvationregret, but worldly grief produces death.
7:11	For consider how much diligence this very thing — this grieving as God wills — has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
7:12	So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your diligencedevotion forto us might be made plain to you in the sight of God.
7:13	For this reason we have been comforted. In addition to our own comfort, we rejoiced even more over the joy Titus had, because his spirit was refreshed by all of you.
7:14	For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrasseddisappointed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.
8:1	We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God grantedthat was given to the churches of Macedonia:
8:2	During a severe testingtrial brought about by affliction, their abundanceabundant of joy and their deepextreme poverty overflowed intoin thea wealth of generosity on their generositypart.
8:3	I can testify that, on their own, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord,
8:4	they begged us insistentlyearnestly for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints,
8:5	and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especiallyfirst to the Lord, and then to us by God’s will.
8:6	So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete among you this graceact toof yougrace.
8:7	Now as you excel in everything — in faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us  — excel also in this act of grace.
8:9	For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though Hehe was rich, for your sake Hehe became poor, so that by Hishis poverty you might become rich.
8:10	NowAnd in this matter I am giving anadvice opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who abegan last year ago began not only to do something but also to desirewant to do it.
8:11	ButNow nowalso finish the task, asso well, that just as there was eagernessan toeager desire it, so there may also be a completion, fromaccording to what you have.
8:12	For if the eagerness is there, itthe gift is acceptable according to what onea person has, not according to what he does not have.
8:13	It is not that there mayshould be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality—.
8:14	atAt the present time your surplus is available for their need, so that their abundance may alsoin becometurn availablemeet foryour our need, soin order that there may be equality.
8:15	As it hasis been written: The person who gatheredhad much did not have too much, and the person who gatheredhad little did not have too little.
8:16	Thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus.
8:17	For he acceptedwelcomed our urgingappeal and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.
8:18	We have sent with him the brother who is praised throughoutamong all the churches for his gospel ministry.
8:19	And not only that, but he was also appointed by the churches to accompany us with this gracious gift that iswe beingare administeredadministering by us for the glory of the Lord Himselfhimself and to show our eagerness to help.
8:20	We are taking this precaution so that no one canwill criticize us about this large sum administeredthat bywe usare administering.
8:21	ForIndeed, we are makinggiving provisioncareful forthought to do what is right, not only before the Lord but also before menpeople.
8:22	We have also sent with them our brother. We have often tested him in many circumstances and found him to be diligent — and now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.
8:23	As for Titus, he is my partner and coworker servingfor you; as for our brothers, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
9:2	For I know your eagerness, and I bragboast about you to the Macedonians:, “Achaia has been preparedready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
9:3	But I sentam sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in thethis matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be preparedready just as I said.
9:4	ForOtherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, would be embarrassedput to shame in that situation.
9:6	RememberThe point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.
9:7	Each person should do as he has decided in his heart — not reluctantly or out of necessitycompulsion, forsince God loves a cheerful giver.
9:9	As it is written: He scattereddistributed freely; Hehe gave to the poor; Hishis righteousness endures forever.
9:10	Now the Oneone who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will also provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
9:12	For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many actsexpressions of thanksgivingthanks to God.
9:13	TheyBecause of the proof provided by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedienceobedient to the confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with others through the proof provided by this serviceeveryone.
9:14	And as they pray on your behalf, they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
9:15	Thanks be to God for Hishis indescribable gift.!
10:1	Now I, Paul, makemyself, a personal appeal to you by the gentlenessmeekness and graciousnessgentleness of Christ — I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.
10:2	I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are behavingliving inaccording anto unspiritualthe wayflesh.
10:3	For thoughalthough we live in the bodyflesh, we do not wage war inaccording anto unspiritualthe wayflesh,
10:4	since the weapons of our warfare are not worldlyof the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
10:5	and every high-mindedproud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, takingand we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
10:6	And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience hasis beencomplete. confirmed.
10:7	Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, helet shouldhim remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.
10:8	For if I boast somea morelittle too much about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I amwill not ashamedbe put to shame.
10:10	For it is said, “His letters are weighty and powerful, but his physical presence is weak, and his public speaking isamounts despicableto nothing.”
10:11	SuchLet such a person should consider this: What we are in the words of our letters, when we are absent, we will also be in our actions when we are present.
10:15	We are not braggingboasting beyond measure about other people’s labors. ButOn the contrary, we have the hope that as your faith increases, our area of ministry will be greatly enlarged,
10:16	so that we may proclaimpreach the goodgospel news to the regions beyond you, notwithout boasting about what has already been done in someone else’s area of ministry.
10:17	So let the one who boasts, must boast in the Lord.
11:1	I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me.!
11:2	For I am jealous overfor you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure virgin to Christ.
11:3	But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a completesincere and pure devotion to Christ.
11:5	Now I consider myself in no way inferior to thethose “super-apostles.”
11:6	ThoughEven if I am untrained in public speaking, I am certainly not untrained in knowledge. Indeed, we have alwaysin every way made that clear to you in everything.
11:9	When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, forsince the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.
11:12	But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny thean opportunity ofto those who want an opportunity to be regarded just as our equals in what they boast about.
11:15	So it is no great thingsurprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destinyend will be according to their works.
11:16	I repeat: NoLet no one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so that I toocan mayalso boast a little.
11:17	What I sayam saying in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but as it were, foolishly.
11:18	Since many boast inaccording anto unspiritualthe wayflesh, I will also boast.
11:20	In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devoursexploits you, if someone capturestakes advantage of you, if someone dominatesis arrogant toward you, or if someone hitsslaps you in the face.
11:21	I say this to our shame: We have been too weak. for that! But in whatever anyone dares to boast — I am talking foolishly — I also dare:
11:22	Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seeddescendants of Abraham? So am I.
11:23	Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman — I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death. many times.
11:24	Five times I received 39the forty lashes minus one from the Jews.
11:25	Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans. Once I wasreceived stoneda by my enemiesstoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.
11:26	On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the open countrywilderness, dangers onat the sea, and dangers among false brothers;
11:27	labortoil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and lackingwithout clothing.
11:28	Not to mention other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my careconcern for all the churches.
11:31	The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is praisedblessed forever, knows I am not lying.
11:32	In Damascus, thea governorruler under King Aretas guarded the city of theDamascus Damascenes in order to arrest me,.
11:33	soSo I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.
12:2	I know a man in Christ who was caught up intoto the third heaven 14fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know,; God knows.
12:3	I know that this man — whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know,; God knows —
12:4	was caught up into paradise. Heand heard inexpressible words, which a manhuman being is not allowed to speak.
12:6	For if I want to boast, I willwouldn’t not be a fool, because I willwould be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,
12:7	especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
12:8	Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times tothat take it awaywould fromleave me.
12:9	But Hehe said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
12:10	So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastropheshardships, persecutions, and in pressuresdifficulties, becausefor the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
12:11	I have becomebeen a fool; you forced it on me. IYou shouldought to have beencommended endorsed by youme, since I am not in any way inferior to thethose “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
12:12	The signs of an apostle were performed with greatunfailing endurance among you—not, onlyincluding signs butand also wonders and miracles.
12:13	So in what way wereare you treated worse off than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me for this wrong!
12:14	NowLook, I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, forsince I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children areought not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
12:16	Now granted, I havedid not burdenedburden you; yet sly as I am, I took you in by deceit!
12:17	Did I take advantage of you by anyoneany of those I sent you?
12:18	I urged Titus to comego, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus didn’t take advantage of you, did he? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit and in the same footsteps?
12:19	YouHave haveyou thoughtbeen thinking all along that we were defending ourselves to you.? No, in the sight of God we are speaking in Christ, and everything, dear friends, is for building you up.
12:20	For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and Iyou may not befind foundme by you to be what you want;. Perhaps there maywill be quarreling, jealousy, angry outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
12:21	I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuitysensuality they practiced.
13:1	This is the third time I am coming to you. Every factmatter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
13:3	since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak towardin dealing with you, but powerful among you.
13:4	InFor fact,he He was crucified in weakness, but Hehe lives by God’sthe power of God. For we also are weak in Himhim, yetbut towardin dealing with you we will live with Himhim by God’s power.
13:5	Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—? — unless you fail the test.
13:6	And I hope you will recognize that we ourselves do not fail the test.
13:7	NowBut we pray to God that you do nothing wrong — not that we may appear to pass the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear to fail.
13:8	For we arecan’t not able to do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
13:9	InWe fact, we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray that you become fully mature.
13:10	This is why I am writing these things while absent, so that when I am there I willmay not usehave severityto deal harshly with you, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
13:11	Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice. Become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
13:12	Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greetsend you greetings.
13:13	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all of you.