For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.

For if the service of condemnation glory, much more the service of justice abounds in glory.

For if that left unemployed by glory, much more that remaining in glory.

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

So that we from now know none according to the flesh: and if also we have known Christ according to the:flesh, but now we know no more.

And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all.

And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him.

For truly he received the entreaty; and being more earnest, he went forth voluntarily to you.

And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.