Sufficient for such a one was the punishment inflicted by the many;

so that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Let such a one consider this: that such as we are in word through letters, when absent; such also are we in deed, when present.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body I know not, or whether out of the body I know not, God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the Third Heaven.

And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not, God knoweth),

On behalf of such a one I will glory; but on my own behalf I will not glory, except in my weaknesses.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I desire, and that I, too, should be found by you such as ye do not desire; lest, by any means, there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

since ye seek a proof of Christ's speaking in me, Who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you;