For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or even acknowledge. And I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end,

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.

For to this end also I wrote, that I might know by putting it to the proof, whether ye are obedient in all things.

Ye are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

But their understandings were blinded; for until this day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remaineth, since it is not unveiled to them that it is done away in Christ;

but even till this day, when Moses is read, there lieth a veil upon their heart;

in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Although, then, I wrote to you, it was not on account of him that did the wrong, nor of him who suffered wrong; but that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you in the sight of God.

For concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.

And though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but this did we in every respect manifest to you in all things.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.