³ seeing that ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:

²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.

⁸ For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:

⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

¹⁰ For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

⁴ (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

² Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

³ being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables `that are' hearts of flesh.

¹⁰ But to whom ye forgive anything, I `forgive' also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes `have I forgiven it' in the presence of Christ;

⁶ Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was `inflicted' by the many;

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

² If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

³ My defence to them that examine me is this.

⁴ in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

⁵ to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.

¹⁸ Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

¹⁹ Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven.

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.