¹² So although I wrote unto you, I `wrote' not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

⁹ For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

¹ It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one `of you' hath his father's wife.

² And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

³ And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is `the joy' of you all.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

⁸ For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret `it' (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

¹¹ Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

²⁸ Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

⁵ (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)