Study Desk

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end,

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason for boasting as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but has become yes in Him.

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes. Therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

But I determined this for my own sake, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority,

Therefore I encourage you to reaffirm your love for him.

For to this end also I wrote, so that I might know your proven character, whether you are obedient in all things.

But one whom you graciously forgive anything, I graciously forgive also. For indeed what I have graciously forgiven, if I have graciously forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother. But saying farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia.

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.