Having, then, this purpose, did I act with levity? Or in my purposes do I resolve according to the flesh, that with me there should be now yea, yea, and now nay, nay?

For if I make you sorrowful, who is there to make me glad but he that is made sorrowful by me?

but even till this day, when Moses is read, there lieth a veil upon their heart;

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Now therefore perform the doing of it, that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

For if there be first the willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, not according to what he hath not.

but to make an equality; at the present season your abundance meeting their deficiency, that their abundance may at another time meet your deficiency; that there may be equality;

But this there is to say: He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully.

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

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

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.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;