For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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