And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

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

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

Him who knew no sin he made to be'sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.