But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

so that we exhorted Titus that, as he began before, so also he would finish in you this same grace also.

that I may not seem as if I would terrify you with letters;

Would that ye could bear with me in some little foolishness! Yea, indeed, ye do bear with me.

For, if I should desire to glory, I would not be foolish, for I shall be speaking truth; but I forbear, lest some one should think, in regard to me, above what he sees me to be, or hears from me.