For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

Wherefore I exhort you, that love may have strength over him.

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

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the holy ghost, in love unfeigned,

Now therefore, as ye are rich in all parts, in faith, in word, in knowledge, in all ferventness, and in love, which ye have to us: even so see that ye be plenteous in this benevolence.

This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.

Wherefore show unto them the proof of your love, and of the rejoicing that we have of you, that the congregations may see it.

Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again.

Finally, brethren, fare ye well: be perfect, 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 our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with you all. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, by Titus and Luke}