2 Corinthians 2:3

¹⁰I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

²²We have sent with them our brother whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

²¹Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

¹²So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

⁴We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

¹¹I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

¹⁵In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

⁸For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.

⁶Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,