For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or even acknowledge. And I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end,

Are we beginning again to recommend ourselves? Or do we need, like some others, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

I speak not by way of command, but by reason of the earnestness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

And I only give an opinion in this matter. For this is expedient for you, who began before others, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

For it is not that others may be eased, and you burdened,

not boasting of things that are without measure, in other mens labors, but having hope, when your faith is increased, that our line will through you be still further extended,

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, in order to do you service;

Besides the other troubles, there is that which presseth upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches.

For what is there in which ye were at disadvantage when compared with other churches, except that I myself was not a charge to you? Forgive me this wrong.

I said before, and now say beforehand, as when present the second time, so also absent now, to those who have sinned before, and to all the others, that if I come again, I will not spare;