³ not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

¹¹ Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

¹² ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels,

⁸ so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹⁰ because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.

¹⁵ and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

¹¹ wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

¹² If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --

² our letter ye are, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

⁴ for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

⁵ And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

¹⁴ Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

¹⁵ for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

¹⁶ And Ruth saith, `Urge me not to leave thee -- to turn back from after thee; for whither thou goest I go, and where thou lodgest I lodge; thy people `is' my people, and thy God my God.

¹⁷ Where thou diest I die, and there I am buried; thus doth Jehovah to me, and thus doth He add -- for death itself doth part between me and thee.'