For we do not write to you of other things, but of what you read and acknowledge; and I hope you will also acknowledge to the end,

so that on the other hand you ought to forgive and comfort him, that he may not be overwhelmed with excessive sorrow.

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

For being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened, because we do not wish to put it off, but to put on [the other], that the mortal may be swallowed up by life.

I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love;

Not that others may be relieved and you burdened,

not boasting of things unmeasured in the labors of others, but having a hope, your faith being increased, that we shall be magnified among you according to our rule abundantly,

I robbed other churches taking wages to serve you;