For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,

to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

For it is not, so that ease is for others and stress for you, but out of parity your abundance at the present time is for the need of those men.

not boasting in things immeasurable, in other men's labors, but having hope of your faith growing in you to be enlarged according to our measure for abundance,

I robbed other congregations, having taken a wage in order for your service.

For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

I have told you before, and I say in advance, as present the second time, and now absent, I write to those who have previously sinned, and to all the others, that if I come to it again, I will not spare,

Salute each other by a holy kiss.