In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

I robbed other churches, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you do not desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;