For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us,'see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

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