why shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more glorious?

For if the ministering of condemnation be glorious: much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

Then if that which is destroyed was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth be glorious.

but in all things let us behave ourselves as the ministers of God. In much patience, in afflictions, in necessity, in anguish,

how that the abundance of their rejoicing is, that they are tried with much tribulation. And thereto, though they were exceeding poor, yet have they given exceeding richly, and that in singleness.

agreeing to that which is written, "He that gathered much had never the more abundance, and he that gathered little, had nevertheless."

We have sent with them a brother of ours, whom we have oft times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent. The great confidence which I have in you