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HOW TO BE BUILT UP AND FINAL GREETINGS

For this reason I am writing these things while absent from you, so that when I come, I will not need to deal severely [with you], in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me [to be used] for building you up and not for tearing you down.

FINAL WARNINGS TO ALL PROVE YOUR OWN SELVES

Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers.

CONCERN FOR THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH

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.

PAUL’S VISIONS AND HIS THORN

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago–whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, [only] God knows–such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

PAUL’S SUFFERINGS AS AN APOSTLE

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

CONSTRAINED TO SILENCE BOASTERS

The proverb says, “Answer a fool according to his folly,” and this is an exact description of the Apostle’s defense.

PAUL AND THE FALSE APOSTLES

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

ENLARGING ONE’S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE

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 preaching the gospel of Christ

PAUL DEFENDS HIS MINISTRY

If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

THE CHEERFUL GIVER ENRICHED UNTO LIBERALITY

He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.