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

It is actually reported [that there is] sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality 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, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so 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 the sight of God in Christ.

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

besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all 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?);