For I wrote you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

You look at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

Let such people realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

But, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.