For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

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

for, if that which is passing away comes through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

that, in much trial of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

beseeching us with much entreaty as to the grace and the participation in the ministering to the saints;

as it has been written, "He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack."

And we sent with them our brother, whom we often in many things proved to be diligent, but now much more diligent by reason of his great confidence in you.