For we write no other things to you than those which you know and acknowledge; and I trust also ye will acknowledge them even to the end.

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

Ye are our letter written in our hearts, acknowledged and read of all men:

For unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is spread over their hearts.

by the word of truth, by the power of God, with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left,

And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.

NOW concerning the contribution for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you.

For though I may be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but on every occasion we have been made manifest in all things among you.

I have told you before, and I repeat it, as when I was present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have sinned already, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare you: