2 Corinthians 2:3

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you. I have: or, he hath

Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; benefit: or, grace

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?