that is, to go by you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on to Judea.

So I beg you in your love to reinstate him entirely.

So I am an envoy to represent Christ, because it is through me that God is making His appeal. As one representing Christ I beg you, be reconciled to God.

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.

I beg you not to make me too courageous in that confidence in which I think to take a daring stand against some people who try to think that I am acting from the lowest human motives.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over some of those who formerly have committed shocking sins, and have not repented for them -- their impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality, which once they practiced.

I have already warned those who formerly committed shocking sins, and all the rest, and though so far away I warn them now, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will not spare them,