I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which {I have} in you. {I have: or, he hath}

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, {I did it} not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though {it were} but for a season.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

{And} lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and {that} I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and {in} the spirit of meekness?

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; {benefit: or, grace}

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform {it} until the day of Jesus Christ: {perform: or, finish}

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. {for you: Gr. for your souls}

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and {in} the spirit of meekness?

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, {being} of one accord, of one mind.

I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all {things}.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, {I did it} not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. {carefully: or, with more anxious care}

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without {were} fightings, within {were} fears.

He that begetteth a fool {doeth it} to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.