For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge to the end;

to the one class a savor of death unto death, and to the other a savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love.

And I give my judgment in this; for this is profitable for you, who, indeed, began before others, a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

For it is not that there may be relief to others, but distress to you;

not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them, that I might minister to you;