For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don't need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people's trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

Nor do we boast beyond certain limits in the work done by others, but we hope that as your faith continues to grow, our work may be greatly expanded among you according to our limits,

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!