I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.
and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.
And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.
Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.
So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,