KJV:
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
NASB:
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
KJV:
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
NASB:
Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
KJV:
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
NASB:
that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.
KJV:
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
NASB:
begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,
KJV:
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
NASB:
as it is written, "HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK."
KJV:
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
NASB:
We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.