And I wrote this same thing to you, lest coming I might have grief from those of whom I ought to rejoice, trusting in you all that my joy is the joy of all of you.
Boasting, I have become foolish. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you, for I lacked nothing of the exceedingly great apostles, even though I am nothing.
that it not be, in my having come again, my God may humble me with you, and I shall mourn many of the ones sinning before and not having repented over the uncleanness and fornication and lustfulness which they have practiced.
Because of this, I write these things while absent, that being present I may not deal severelywith you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for destruction.
Then even if I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one doing wrong, nor for the sake of the one being wronged, but for the sake of revealing our earnestness on your behalf, for you before God.
And we sent with them our brother whom we often proved in many things to be earnest, and now much more earnest by the great confidence which I have toward you.