6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of
necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8 And God isable to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in
all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness
remaineth for ever.
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for yourfood, and multiply
your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to
God.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is
abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed
subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for yourliberal distribution unto them, and unto all
men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks beunto God for his unspeakable gift.
1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am
base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith
I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare arenot carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is
Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he isChrist's, even so arewe Christ's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for
edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For hisletters, say they, areweighty and powerful; but hisbodily presence isweak, and his
speech contemptible.
11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such
will we bealso in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that
commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves
among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without ourmeasure, but according to the measure of the
rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we
are come as far as to you also in preachingthe gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without ourmeasure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope,
when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regionsbeyond you, andnot to boast in another man's line of
things made ready to our hand.

17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in myfolly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I
may present you asa chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ifye receive
another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye
might well bear with him.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I berude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made
manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have
preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was
lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all thingsI have kept
myself from being burdensome unto you, and sowill I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of
Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion;
that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13 For such arefalse apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles
of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it isno great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may
boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak itnot after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence
of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselvesare wise.
20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a
man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is
bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so amI. Are they Israelites? so amI. Are they the seed of Abraham? so
amI.
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I ammore; in labours more abundant, in
stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripessave one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a
day I have been in the deep;
26 Injourneyings often, inperils of waters, inperils of robbers, inperils by mine own
countrymen, inperils by the heathen, inperils in the city, inperils in the wilderness, inperils
in the sea, inperils among false brethren;

27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in
cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the
churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I
lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a
garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the
Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or
whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful
for a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but nowI
forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or thathe heareth
of me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there
was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be
exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of
you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders,
and mighty deeds.
13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it bethat I myself was
not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I
seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for
the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the
less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 I desired Titus, and with himI sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not
in the same spirit? walked wenot in the same steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do
all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and thatI shall be found