For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

how much more will not the ministry of the Spirit be attended with glory?

For if the ministry of condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.

For if that which was abolished came in a glorious manner, much more is that which remaineth glorious.

Having therefore such a hope, we use much freedom of speech.

but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

with much entreaty praying us that we would receive the gift, and [undertake] the communication of the contribution for the saints.

According as it is written, "He that [gathered] much had no more than others, and he who [gathered] little, had no less."

And we have sent with him our brother, whom we have often experienced in many things to be a man of diligence, but now much more diligent, through the great confidence which I have in you.