³ My defense to those who examine me is this:

¹¹ For behold what earnestness this very thing, this ^[a]godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what ^(A)longing, what zeal, what ^(B)avenging of wrong! In everything you ^(C)demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.