For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: