Why, G686 though G1499 I wrote G1125 to you, I did it not for his cause G1752 that had done G91 the wrong, G91 nor G3761 for his cause G1752 that suffered wrong, G91 but that our care G4710 for you in the sight G1799 of God G2316 might appear G5319 to you.

For out of much G4183 affliction G2347 and anguish G4928 of heart G2588 I wrote G1125 to you with many G4183 tears; G1144 not that you should be grieved, G3076 but that you might know G1097 the love G26 which G3739 I have G2192 more G4056 abundantly G4056 to you.

But if G1487 any G5100 have G2192 caused G3076 grief, G3076 he has not grieved G3076 me, but in part: G3313 that I may not overcharge G1912 you all. G3956

Therefore G1223 G5124 I write G1125 these G5023 things being absent, G548 lest G2443 G3361 being present G3918 I should use G5530 sharpness, G664 according G2596 to the power G1849 which G3739 the Lord G2962 has given G1325 me to edification, G3619 and not to destruction. G2506

I write G1125 not these G5023 things to shame G1788 you, but as my beloved G27 sons G5043 I warn G3560 you.

For though G1437 you have G2192 ten G3463 thousand G3563 instructors G3807 in Christ, G5547 yet G235 have you not many G4183 fathers: G3962 for in Christ G5547 Jesus G2424 I have begotten G1080 you through G1223 the gospel. G2098

O you Corinthians, G2881 our mouth G4750 is open G455 to you, our heart G2588 is enlarged. G4115

You are not straitened G4729 in us, but you are straitened G4729 in your G5216 own bowels. G4698

You are our letter G1992 written G1449 in our hearts, G2588 known G1097 and read G314 of all G3956 men: G444

Why? G1302 because G3754 I love G25 you not? God G2316 knows. G1492

And I will very G2236 gladly G2236 spend G1159 and be spent G1550 for you; though G1499 the more G4056 abundantly G4056 I love G25 you, the less G2276 I be loved. G25

For God G2316 is my record, G3144 how G5613 greatly G1971 I long G1971 after G1971 you all G3956 in the bowels G4698 of Jesus G2424 Christ. G5547

And this G5124 I pray, G4336 that your G5216 love G26 may abound G4052 yet G2089 more G3123 and more G3123 in knowledge G1922 and in all G3956 judgment; G144

And Ruth H7327 said, H559 Entreat H6293 me not to leave H5800 you, or to return H7725 from following after H310 you: for where H413 H834 you go, H3212 I will go; H3212 and where H834 you lodge, H3885 I will lodge: H3885 your people H5971 shall be my people, H5971 and your God H430 my God: H430

Where H834 you die, H4191 will I die, H4191 and there H8033 will I be buried: H6912 the LORD H3068 do H6213 so H3541 to me, and more H3254 also, H3541 if H3588 ought but death H4194 part H6504 you and me.

So G3779 being affectionately G2442 desirous G2442 of you, we were willing G2106 to have imparted G3330 to you, not the gospel G2098 of God G2316 only, G3440 but also G2532 our own G1438 souls, G5590 because G1360 you were dear G27 to us.