For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

For if that which has passed away was with glory, much more will that which continues be in glory.

that in much trying affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

with much entreaty they desired of us the favor of a participation in the service to the saints;

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

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me, that I should not be too much exalted.