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

So that instead you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with too much sorrow.

For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Begging us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

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

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.