And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

And ye serving together for us in prayer, that of many faces, the favor to us by many thanks be returned by us.

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.

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.