"For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:"

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;"

"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."

"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."

"For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth."

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

"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."

"For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:"

"For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears."

"This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."