shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?

For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory:

For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

Wherefore we henceforth know no one according to the flesh: and if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we thus know Him no more.

We were therefore comforted by your consolation; and rejoiced the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all;

for he not only complied with the exhortation, but being more forward he went to you of his own accord.

And we have sent with them another brother of ours, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, and now I doubt not much more on account of his great confidence in you.

For though I should boast yet more of our authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction) I should not be ashamed:

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? (if I may speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes far exceeding, in prisons more frequently, and often even in deaths.

And I will with the greatest pleasure spend and be spent for your souls; even though the more I love you, the less I should be loved.