You must help me by your prayers, so that many will give thanks to God on my behalf for the blessing granted me in answer to many prayers.

For I was in great trouble and distress of mind when I wrote you, and I shed many tears as I did it, yet it was not to hurt your feelings, but to make you realize the extraordinary affection I have for you.

pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

Since many are so human as to boast, I will do it also.

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.