American Standard Version
"For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things. "
— 2 Corinthians 2:9, American Standard Version
“For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.”
“For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.”
“For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.”
“For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things.”
“And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.”
“For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.”
Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.
But to whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the presence of Christ;
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,