For to this end also did I write, that I might have proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

And to whom ye forgive any thing, I also forgive it: for if I have forgiven any thing, I forgave it him, to whom I did forgive it, for your sakes, in the person of Christ; that we might not be foiled by Satan:

For though I grieved you by my letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that epistle grieved you, though it was but for a little while.

And this they did not merely as we hoped, but first gave themselves unto the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

Be it so, that I did not burden you myself, yet, may some say, being crafty I over-reached you by subtilty.

But did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

I desired Titus to come to you, and with him I sent a brother: did Titus make a gain of you? did we not walk in the same spirit? did we not tread in the same steps?