For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.