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

^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?

³ I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that ^(A)you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

¹¹ We have spoken freely to you,^[a] Corinthians; ^(A)our heart is wide open. ¹² You are not restricted by us, but ^(B)you are restricted in your own affections.

²³ and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(A)who searches mind and heart, and ^(B)I will give to each of you according to your works.

¹³ And ^(A)no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are ^(B)naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

² I know a man ^(A)in Christ who fourteen years ago was ^(B)caught up to ^(C)the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ^(D)God knows. ³ And I know that this man was caught up into ^(E)paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, ^(F)God knows—

^31 (A)The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, ^(B)he who is blessed forever, ^(C)knows that I am not lying.

⁸ And God, ^(A)who knows the heart, ^(B)bore witness to them, ^(C)by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

¹⁷ He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him ^(A)the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, ^(B)you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed ^(C)my sheep.