I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions.

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

I wrote you with a greatly troubled and distressed heart and with many tears; my purpose was not to make you sad, but to make you realize how much I love you all.

We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.

Do I say this because I don't love you? God knows I love you!

And not to mention other things, every day I am under the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?