For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.

For if that annulled was introduced with glory, much rather that which abides subsists in glory.

Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in you, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

begging of us with much entreaty to give effect to the grace and fellowship of the service which was to be rendered to the saints.

According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.