And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: