I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all.
And we have confidence in the Lord in regard to you that you are doing, and will do, what we command.
I write to you in the full confidence that you will meet my wishes, for I know you will do even more than I say.
Therefore, though I might with Christ's authority speak very freely and order you to do what is fitting,
