Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
Insomuch that we desired 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,