For this is our rejoicing, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more especially 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.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory:

So that we from this time know no one after the flesh; yea, if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted over you, when he told us your earnest desire, your grief, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort, and we rejoiced the more exceedingly in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

And his tender affection is more abundant toward you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

For he accepted indeed the exhortation, but being more forward, he went to you of his own accord.

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.

Yea, if I should boast something more also of the authority which the Lord hath given us, for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I more: in labours more abundantly, in stripes more exceedingly, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often.

And I will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.