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Grace bee to you and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Who comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort, wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.

For we would not, brethren, haue you ignorant of our trouble which came to vs in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, aboue strength, in so much that we dispaired euen of life.

For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.

For we write none other things vnto you, then what you reade or acknowledge, and I trust you shall acknowledge euen to the end.

And in this confidence I was minded to come vnto you before, that you might haue a second benefit:

1611 marginal noteOr, grace.

And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and of you to bee brought on my way toward Iudea.

When I therefore was thus minded, did I vse lightnesse? or the things that I purpose, doe I purpose according to the flesh, that with mee there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

Moreouer, I call God for a record vpon my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinth.

¶ But I determined this with my selfe, that I would not come againe to you in heauinesse.