| 4 | I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed. |
| 5 | For even when we came into Macedo'nia, our bodies had no rest but we were afflicted at every turn -- fighting without and fear within. |
| 6 | But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, |
| 7 | and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. |
| 8 | For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it (though I did regret it), for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. |
| 9 | As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting; for you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. |
| 12 | So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your zeal for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. |
| 15 | And his heart goes out all the more to you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you received him. |