For this cause verily did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye should be obedient in all things.

For if we be too fervent, to God are we too fervent: if we keep measure, for your cause keep we measure.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that did hurt, neither for his cause that was hurt: but that our good mind which we have toward you in the sight of God, might appear unto you