8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9. For we rejoice when we may be weak and ye may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.
10. On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
11. For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
12. Salute one another with a holy kiss.
13. All the saints salute you.
14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.