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

Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love towards him.

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

By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith and utterance, 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 by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Wherefore show ye 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 knoweth.

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 perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will 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. Amen.