³ And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.^(A)

¹⁰ I am confident about you in the Lord that you will not think otherwise. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.^(A)

²² And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found eager in many matters but who is now more eager than ever because of his great confidence in you.

²¹ Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.^(A)

⁴ And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will go on doing the things that we command.^(A)

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthian Church

¹¹ I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.^(A)

¹² So although I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the one who suffered the wrong but in order that your zeal for us might be made known to you before God.^(A)

⁸ For although I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it (for^[a] I see that that letter caused you grief, though only briefly),

⁶ But God, who consoles the downcast, consoled us by the arrival of Titus,^(A)

¹⁵ Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor;^[a](A)