and being in readiness to punish every disobedience, when the measure of your obedience shall be full.

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound; in every thing and in all things I have been well taught, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want;

And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

Having many things to write to you, I would not write with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.