For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more especially toward you.

and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be brought forward by you in my way toward Judea.

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

I beseech you therefore to confirm your love toward him.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened toward you, our heart is inlarged.

Great is my freedom of speech toward you; great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I exceedingly abound with joy, over all our affliction.

And his tender affection is more abundant toward you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that having always all sufficiency in all things, ye may abound to every good work:

Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

I beseech, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold toward some, who think of us as walking after the flesh:

But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.