I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.
And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I wouldn’t have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice—having confidence in you all that my joy is yours.
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than what I say.
Therefore, though I have plenty of boldness in Messiah to order you to do what’s right,
We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will keep doing what we command.
and you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,