And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he hath done, whether good or bad.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

For if I have boasted any thing to him concerning you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

And in this I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Wherefore show ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up before hand your bounty, of which ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edification.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;