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 if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.

and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.