For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart

In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,

Wherefore, if I also wrote to you, not for him having been unjust, for him having suffered injustice, but that your care for us might be made manifest to you before God.

For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.