For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that every one may receive for the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it were good or bad.

For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I said before that ye are so much in our hearts that we could live and die with you.

Therefore shew to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and the justness of our boasting concerning you.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go first to you, and before our coming to collect your bounty beforementioned, that it may be ready, as of munificence, and not of force.

Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.

I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare: