For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)