For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.