1 Therefore since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.
2 Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have defrauded no one.
3 I do not say this to condemn you, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.
4 Great is my confidence toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
5 For even when we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—quarrels outside, fears within.
6 But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus,