For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

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

in much patience, in afflictions,

Praying us with much intreaty, to receive the gift and take a part in ministring it to the saints.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, through his great confidence in you.