Lexicon :: Strong's G1161 - de

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.

As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”

Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

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.

Anyone you forgive, I do too. For what I have forgiven ​— ​if I have forgiven anything ​— ​it is for your benefit in the presence of Christ,

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though the Lord opened a door for me,

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things?

Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God.

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 gives life.

but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences.

Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

Working together with him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.”

as grieving, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us.

What agreement does Christ have with Belial?[fn] Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

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.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly grief produces death.

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.

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that was given to the churches of Macedonia:

Now also finish the task, so that just as there was an eager desire, there may also be a completion, according to what you have.

Thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus.

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.

But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said.

The point is this:[fn] The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

Now the one who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will also provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ ​— ​I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.

For it is said, “His letters are weighty and powerful, but his physical presence is weak and his public speaking amounts to nothing.”