For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

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

But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.

On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.