For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

how shall not the ministering of the spirit be more glorious?

For if the ministering of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministering of righteousness surpass in glory.

For if that which was to come to an end was glorious, much more that which is to remain is glorious.

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for them selves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.

and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you when he told us of your strong affection, your grief, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For this reason, we have been comforted by means of your comfort: and we rejoiced exceedingly more indeed, on account of the joy of Titus, for his spirit was refreshed by you all.

and his affection for you is the more abundant, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

for he accepted my exhortation, and, being more earnest, he went to you of his own accord.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things, but now much more diligent on account of the strong confidence which he has in you.

For though I should boast even, somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I would not be ashamed:

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

For though I should choose to boast, I would not be void of understanding: for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me more than what he sees me to be, or what he hears of me.

I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.