And in this confidence I intended to go to you before, that you might have a second benefit;

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that each may receive his reward for the things done in his body, according to what he has done, whether good or evil.

I do not say this to condemn you; for I have said before, that you are in our hearts, so that we could die with you, and live with you.

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification.