To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.

For this cause, though absent, I have written these things, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.