For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

For this very purpose also I wrote you (before), that I might test you, to see if you were obedient in every respect.

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Testament, the same veil rests thereon, because it is not revealed to them that in Christ the veil is taken away.

Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts;

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge.

I urged Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Did Titus make gain of you? And did I not walk in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?