For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.

For God, who said "Let light shine out of darkness," is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.