And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that ye might have had a second benefit, And to pass by you into Macedonia,

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

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

For we provide things honest, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

Shew therefore to them before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

Therefore I thought it necessary, to desire the brethren to go before to you, and compleat this your bounty, which had been spoken of before, that it may be ready as a bounty, and not as a matter of covetousness.

Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification.

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare: