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

Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.

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

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

Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but to prove by the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love.

Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Why? because I love you not? God knows.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be restored, be of good comfort, 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 fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.