and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

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

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,