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

Wherefore I exhort you to confirm your love towards him.

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

in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

So as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and elocution, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you.

Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

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

Finally, brethren, rejoice: be perfectly united together, be comforted, be of one 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 Ghost be with you all. Amen.