¹⁶ I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

³ and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

⁴ and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

⁸ Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

²¹ having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;