For we write no other things to you than what you read or recognize, and I trust you shall recognize them even to the end,

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

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

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

You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

But until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart.

in the Word of Truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Then, though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, nor on account of the one who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.

For indeed regarding the ministry to the saints, it is not necessary for me to write to you.

If it is right to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

Therefore I write these things while absent, lest being present I may not deal sharply with you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.