And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

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.

So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.

And not as Moses put a veil upon his face, that the sons of Israel should not look intently to the end of that left unemployed:

For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.

Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.

And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed.

Again I say, lest any one should think me to be mad; and if not so indeed, as mad do ye receive me that I might also boast myself some little.

And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.

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.