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Therefore we do not faint; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; not that we want to be unclothed, but that we want to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

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

We are not again commending ourselves to you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that you may have the means to answer those that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

and he died for all, that those that live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to us the service of reconciliation;

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; outside [were] fightings, inside [were] fears.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance; for you were made sorry after a godly sort, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, [a repentance] which brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.

So although I wrote to you, I did not [write] for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

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.

But as you abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] our love to you, [see] that you abound in this grace also.

I don't speak by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

And in this I give [my] judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.