1. Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
2. Make room for us; we have not wronged anyone, or ruined anyone, or taken advantage of anyone.
3. I do not say this in condemnation, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, that we may die together and live together.
4. I have great confidence in you, I have great pride in you; I am filled with encouragement, I am overflowing with joy all the more because of all our affliction.
5. For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—external conflicts, internal fears.
6. But God, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus,
7. and not only by his arrival but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged in regard to you, as he told us of your yearning, your lament, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.