Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready:
For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found to be truth.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
So that we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,