¹⁸ I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same footsteps?

In All This I Am Speaking To Edify You, Lest I Should Have To Come And Mourn Over You

¹⁹ All-this-time are you thinking^[a] that we are defending-ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ— and speaking all things, beloved, for the sake of your edification. ²⁰ For I am fearing that having come, I may somehow find you to be not such as I want and I may be found by you to be such as you do not want— that somehow there may be strife, jealousy, rages^[b], selfish-interests, slanders, whisperings, puffings [with pride], disorders^[c];