why should not this spiritual service be attended with much greater splendor?

For if what passed away was introduced with splendor, with how much greater splendor must what is permanent be attended?

For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

just as the Scripture says, "The man who gathered much did not have too much, and the man who gathered little did not have too little."

For if I do boast a little too much about my authority, which the Lord gave me for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall never have to blush for doing so.

So in my own case, I will most happily spend my money and myself for your sakes. If I love you much more than I love others, am I to be loved less by you?