For to this end I also wrote, so that I might put you to the test, [to see] if you are obedient in all things.

It is actually heard that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

For out of much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you, through many tears, not that you might be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

For we are not as the rest, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!

apart from what I leave unmentioned, what comes against me daily: the anxiety for all the churches.

(for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);