For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love.

Therefore the manifestations of your love, and of your boasting for us, shew ye to them, and to the face of the churches.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.

As to the rest, brethren, rejoice. Be adjusted, be comforted, think the same, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall with you.

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