Sufficient to such a one is this rebuke which has been inflicted by the many;

so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief.

And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but we are giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have such with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

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.

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.

And I know such a man, (whether in the body or out of the body I know not, God knows;)

Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,