For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me?

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

so that instead, for you rather to forgive and encourage, lest perhaps such a man would be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

For if the administration of condemnation has glory, the administration of righteousness excels much more in glory.

For if that which is abolished was through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

Make room for us. We wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we exploited no man.

For behold this same thing--your grieving toward God. How much eagerness it worked in you, even a defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In everything ye demonstrated yourselves to be pure in

with much exhortation, begging of us the favor, even the fellowship of service for the sanctified.

as it is written, he of much did not abound, and he of little did not lack.

And we sent along with them our brother whom we often proved being diligent in many things, but is now much more diligent (with much confidence toward you)

lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.