For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

Everywhere it is heard that there is sexual perversion among you, and such sexual perversion as is not even named among the Gentiles; that a man has his father's wife.

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

For we are not, as so many, peddling the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the sight of God.

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

besides the other things, that come upon me daily: the care of each of the churches.

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