^21 (A)Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

⁴ And ^(A)we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you.

Forgive the Offender

³ And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, ^(A)I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, ^(B)having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

¹⁶ Therefore I rejoice that ^(A)I have confidence in you in everything.

¹⁰ I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

²² And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, because of the great confidence which we have in you.