8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9. By which we are glad that we are weak and ye are strong, and even so we pray for your perfection.
10. Therefore I write these things being absent lest being present I should treat you with more severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.
11. For the rest, brethren, that ye may have joy, be perfected, have consolation, be of one mind, having peace; and the God of peace and charity shall be with you.