For you put up with ¹  it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly ²  toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

For this reason also I wrote you: ¹  to test you to see ²  if you are obedient in everything.

We have spoken freely to you, ¹  Corinthians; our heart has been opened wide to you.

For since you are so wise, you put up with ¹  fools gladly.

I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I? ¹ 

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He ¹  is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, ¹  to present you as a pure ²  virgin to Christ.

And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in ¹  our sufferings, so also you will share in ²  our comfort.

And his affection for you is much greater ¹  when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you. ¹ 

Our affection for you is not restricted, ¹  but you are restricted in your affections for us.

Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless, indeed, you fail the test! ¹ 

I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before ¹  that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you. ² 

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you. ¹ 

Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, ¹  but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, ²  so that you were not harmed ³  in any way by us.

Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. ¹ 

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, ¹  but just as everything we said to you was true, ²  so our boasting to Titus about you ³  has proved true as well.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back ¹  to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

to finish what you started, ¹  so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, ²  you can also complete it ³  according to your means. ⁴