If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort?? comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered,

But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.

I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.

In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the King, kept guard over the city of the Damascus, to arrest me;