I do not write this to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is an immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindlernot even to eat with such a one.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Do we not have the right to food and drink?

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?

If others share this right of support from you, do not we all the more? Nevertheless, we did not make use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my right in the gospel.

or rude, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it keeps no record of wrongs,

I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand.