1. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.
2. Receive us: we have injured no one, we have ruined no one, we have made gain of no one.
3. I do not speak for condemnation, for I have already said that ye are in our hearts, to die together, and live together.
4. Great is my boldness towards you, great my exulting in respect of you; I am filled with encouragement; I overabound in joy under all our affliction.
5. For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.
6. But he who encourages those that are brought low, even God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;
7. and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.
8. For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.