you also striving together for us in prayer, that thanks may be rendered for us by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by many.

For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

Sufficient for such a one is this rebuke by many;

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace may abound through the thanksgiving of many to the glory of God.

as grieving but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and possessing all things.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

for I know your readiness, of which I boasted in your behalf to the Macedonians that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has excited many.

For the performance of this service not only supplies the need of the saints, but also abounds with the thanksgivings of many to God;

Since many boast of the flesh, I also will boast.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.