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2 Corinthians 5:6 (NIV)

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:8 (NIV)

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:9 (NIV)

So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV)

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:11 (NIV)

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

2 Corinthians 5:19 (NIV)

that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 6:2 (NIV)

For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 11:12 (NIV)

And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

2 Corinthians 11:13 (NIV)

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:14 (NIV)

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:15 (NIV)

It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

2 Corinthians 11:16 (NIV)

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.

2 Corinthians 11:17 (NIV)

In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

2 Corinthians 11:18 (NIV)

Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.

2 Corinthians 11:19 (NIV)

You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!

2 Corinthians 11:20 (NIV)

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

2 Corinthians 11:21 (NIV)

To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! Whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about.

2 Corinthians 11:22 (NIV)

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.

2 Corinthians 11:23 (NIV)

Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.

2 Corinthians 11:24 (NIV)

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

2 Corinthians 11:25 (NIV)

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea,

2 Corinthians 11:26 (NIV)

I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.

2 Corinthians 11:27 (NIV)

I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

2 Corinthians 11:28 (NIV)

Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.