but let all things be done decently and in order.

For though I be absent in body, yet am I with you in spirit, rejoicing and beholding your regularity, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.

it seemed good to me also, having thoroughly traced them all from the very first, to write an account of them in order to thee,