It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,