Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

When I thus wise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think, that with me should be "yea, yea," and "nay, nay?"

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

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead:

Now then are we messengers in the room of Christ: even as though God did beseech you through us. So pray we you, in Christ's stead, that ye be at one with God:

Wherefore though I made you sorry with a letter I repent not: though I did repent. For I perceive that that same Epistle made you sorry though it were but for a season.

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

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

Now therefore perform the deed, that as there was in you a readiness to will, even so ye may perform the deed, of that which ye have.

Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? And because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you?

I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: Did Titus defraud you of any thing? Walked we not in one spirit? Walked we not in like steps?