For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

so that we urged Titus, that, as he had already made a beginning, so he would also finish among you this bounty also.

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

Would that ye could bear with me in a little folly! and indeed ye do bear with me.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;