¹² So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one ^(A)who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

⁹ For this is why I wrote, that I might ^(A)test you and know ^(B)whether you are obedient in everything.

⁵ for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for ^(A)God's church?

²⁸ And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for ^(A)all the churches.

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

⁸ For ^(A)even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though ^(B)I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.

¹⁷ For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

³ And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, ^(A)for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. ⁴ For ^(B)I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is ^(A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, ^(B)for a man has his father's wife. ² And ^(C)you are arrogant! Ought you ^(D)not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.