¹² So although I wrote to 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 revealed in you in the sight of God.

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

¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

² You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

³ And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn't have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

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

¹⁷ For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

⁸ For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.

¹¹ Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

²⁸ Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

⁵ (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)