e Acts 9. 4. ch. 4. 10. Col. 1. 24.

fch. 4. 15.

Or, is wrought.

Rom. 8. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 12.

h Acts 19. 23. 1 Cor. 15. 92. & 16. 9.

4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

6 And whether we be afflicted, 'it is for your consolation and salvation, | which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Or, answer. 9 But we had the sentence of death i Jer. 17. 5, 7. in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

k 2 Pet. 2. 9.

! Rom. 15. 30. Phi. 1. 19. Philem. 22. mch. 4. 15.

10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver

us;

persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

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12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and "godly sincerity, not with a ch. 2. 17. & fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

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14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day

of the Lord Jesus.

15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

o 1 Cor. 2. 4, 13.

pch. 5. 12. Phil. 2. 16.

& 4. 1. 1 Thess. 2. 19, 20.

r1 Cor. 4. 19. • Rom. 1. 11. Or, grace.

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16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of 1 Cor. 16. 5, Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.

17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose "according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

1 Pet. 5. 3. g Rom. 11. 20. 1 Cor. 15. 1.

The offender is forgiven.

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a ch. 1. 23. & 12. 20, 21. & 13. 10.

b ch. 12. 21.

e ch. 7. 16. &

CHAPTER II.

Having shewn why he came not to them, 6 the apostle directeth them to receive again the excommunicated person. 12 His disappointment in not finding Titus at Trous. 14 His thanksgiving to God for his success in preaching the gospel.

BUT I determined this with my

self, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

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2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you 8. 22. Gal. 5. all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

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d ch. 7. 8, 9, 12.

5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not 'grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this "punishment, which was inflicted of

many.

7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sor

row.

8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 9. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

13 m I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest "the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish :

16 To the one we are the savour of 1 Pet. 2. 7, 8. death unto death; and to the other

The gospel ministration.

2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ dministered by us, written not with 41 Cor. 3. 5. ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but 'in fleshy tables of the heart.

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Jo 15. 5. h1 Cor. 15, 18.

ch. 2. 16.

Phil. 2. 13. 11 Cor. 3, 5. & 15 14, cả v 5. 12 Epi 3. 7. COL. 1. 25.29. 1 Tim. 1. 11. 12. 2 T.m. 1. 11. Or, quickenetà.

k Jer. 31. 5. Matt. 2. Heb 8, 6, 3. 1 Rom. 2. 27. 29. & 7.6. m Rom. 3. 20. & 4. 15. & 7. 9, 10, 11. Gal 3. 14.

8 How shall not the ministration of John 6, 63. the spirit be rather glorious?

Rom. 8. 2. • Rom. 7. 10. 9 For if the ministration of condem- Ex. 34. 1, 8. Deut it. 1, nation be glory, much more doth the & C. ministration of righteousness exceed 4 Ex. 34. 29, in glory. S0, 55. r Gal, 3, 5. Rom. 1. 17. & S. 21.

10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

teb. 7.4 Eph. 6. 19.

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of Or, boldness. speech:

13 And not as Moses, "which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolish-y ed:

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Is. 6. 14

Gal, 3, 23.

Matt. 15. 11.

| 14. Job 12 40. Acts 2 ¦

26. Rom. 11. 7, 8, 25 ch.

14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of 4.4.

4 ch. 6. 4,7. &

7. 14.

e ch. 5. 11.

f 1 Cor. 1. 18.

ch. 2. 15.

2 Thess. 2.
10.

1 g John 12. 31.

& 14. 30. &

16. 11. Eph.
6. 12.

b Is. 6. 10.
John 12. 40.
ch. 3. 14.

i ch. S. 8, 9,
11.

k John 1. 18.
& 12. 45.
Phil. 2. 6.
Col. 1. 15.
Heb. 1. 3.

† Gr. is he
who hath.

11 Cor. 1. 13,
23. & 10. 33.

In 1 Cor. 9. 19.
ch. 1. 21.

n Gen. 1. 3.
• 2 Pet. 1. 19.
P ver. 4.

1 Pet. 2. 9.

q ch. 5. 1.

r1 Cor. 2. 5.
ch. 12. 9.

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18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

CHAPTER IV.

The apostle's sincerity and diligence in preaching the gospel. 7 How his troubles and persecutions did redound to the praise of God's power, 12 to the benefit of the church, 16 and to the apostle's own eternal

glory.

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THEREFORE, seeing we have a this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

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2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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3 But if our gospel be hid, 'it is hid to them that are lost :

this world

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His support in affliction.

13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

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a Rom. 1. 12. 2 Pet. 1. 1. b Ps. 116. 10.

e Rom. 8. 11. 1 Cor. 6. 14.

15 For all things are for your sakes, & 1 Cor. 3. 21. that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

ch. 1. 6. Col. 1. 24. 2 Tim. 2. 10. e ch. 1. 11. & 8. 19. & 9. 11, 12.

16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day Rom. 7. 22. by day.

17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Eph. 3. 16. Col. 3. 10. 1 Pet. 3. 4. g Matt. 5. 12. Rom. 8. 18. 1 Pet. 1. 6. & 5. 10.

d ch. 3. 12.

e 1 Cor. 1. 4. ch. 1. 14. f ch. 1. 4. Phil. 2. 17. Col. 1. 24.

g ch. 2. 13.

h ch. 4. 8.

i Deut. 32. 25.

k ch. 1. 4.

4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

An example of liberality.

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ch. 6. 12.

but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. 15 And his inward affection is† Gr. bowels, more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of rch. 2. 9. you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

Phil. 2. 12.

16 I rejoice therefore that I have 2 Thess. 3. 4. confidence in you in all things.

CHAPTER VIII.

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6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, 1 See ch. 2. 13. comforted us by the coming of Ti

a ch. 2. 4.

1 Or, according to God.

tus;

7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, m though I did repent for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 10 For "godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be re• Prov. 17. 22. pented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

n 2 Sam. 12. 13. Matt. 26.

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P ch. 2. 4.

you to wit of the grace of bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

2 How that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

Philem. 8, 21.

a Mark 12. 44. + Gr. simplicity, ch. 9. 11.

4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the Acts 11. 29. ministering to the saints.

5 And this they lid, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

7 Therefore, as dye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of 4 Rom. 15. 32. Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;

9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he & Matt. 8. 20. was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Luke 9. 58. Pal. 2. 6, 7.

h1 Cor. 7. 25. i Prov. 19. 17. Matt. 10. 42.

1 Tim. 6. 18, 19. Heb. 13. 16.

+ Gr. willing. ch. 9. 2.

11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing Mark 12. 43, mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

44. Luke 21. 3.