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 unto you.

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

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

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

Praying us with much intreaty 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.