For, out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, wrote I unto you, through many tears, - not that ye might be grieved, but that, the love, ye might know, which I have very abundantly unto you.

Wherefore, I beseech you, assure him, of love;

For, the love of the Christ, constraineth us; -

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

in love unfeigned, in discourse of truth, in power of God; through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and left,

O Corinthians, my tongue is telling you everything; my heart is stretched with love for you.

There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.

And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.

We would remind you, Brothers, of the love that God has shown to the Churches in Macedonia--

And with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow-Christians.

And this led us to urge upon Titus that, as he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.

And not only that, but he has been elected by the Churches to accompany us on our journey, in Keynesian with this expression of your love, which we are personally administering to the honor of the Lord, and to show our deep interest.

So show to the churches an evidence of your love, and a justification to these brothers of my boasting about you.

So I have thought it necessary to urge these brothers to visit you ahead of me and get your promised love-offering ready beforehand, so as to have it ready as a real love-offering, not as one grasped and grudgingly given.

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

Because your service in giving proves your love, you will be glorifying God as you obey what your confession of the Messiah's gospel demands, since you are generous in sharing with them and with everyone else.

While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.

But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

And why? Because I love you not? God knows I do.

Because I love you not? God knoweth. But what I do, I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them who desire occasion, that wherein they boast, they may be found even as we.

For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

If I love you so intensely, am I the less to be loved? Be that as it may: I was not a burden to you. But being by no means scrupulous, I entrapped you, they say!

Finally, brothers, farewell. Aim at perfection, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace; so shall the God of love and peace be with you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.