For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory:

For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

Having therefore such hope, we use much freedom of speech:

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

I speak not this to condemn you: for I said before that ye are so much in our hearts that we could live and die with you.

I use much freedom of speech to you, and I boast much of you: I am filled with comfort, and superabound in joy above all our affliction.

intreating us with much importunity, that we would convey the gift, and so take upon us a part of the ministration to the saints.

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

And we have sent with them another brother of ours, whom we have often proved diligent in many things, and now I doubt not much more on account of his great confidence in you.

And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated.