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.

Open rebuke {is} better than secret love.

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. {and...: or, that thou bear not sin for him}

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, {that they are} the enemies of the cross of Christ:

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.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present {you as} a chaste virgin to Christ.

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}

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and {yet} possessing all things.

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

O {ye} Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with {you}.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, {that they are} the enemies of the cross of Christ:

He saith unto him the third time, Simon, {son} of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

I speak not {this} to condemn {you}: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with {you}.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

{If} we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? {to...: Heb. a word} {withhold...: Heb. refrain from words?}