²⁴ My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

^15 (A)I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If ^(B)I love you more, am I to be loved less?

^19 (A)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

⁸ For ^(A)God is my witness, ^(B)how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

¹¹ And why? ^(A)Because I do not love you? ^(B)God knows I do!

^14 (A)Let all that you do be done in love.

¹⁶ Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider^[a] say ^(A)“Amen” to ^(B)your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

¹⁴ I do not write these things ^(A)to make you ashamed, but to admonish you ^(B)as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For ^(C)though you have countless^[a] guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For ^(D)I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

²⁰ teaching them ^(A)to observe all that ^(B)I have commanded you. And behold, ^(C)I am with you always, to ^(D)the end of the age.”