as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;