¹³ For we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely— ¹⁴ just as you have partially understood us—that we are your reason for pride,^(A) just as you also are ours^(B) in the day of our^[a] Lord Jesus.^(C)

A Visit Postponed

¹⁵ Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first,^(D) so that you could have a second benefit,^[b]