Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

His affection is greater than ever as he remembers the obedience [to his guidance] that all of you exhibited, and how you received him with the greatest respect.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

For it is not he who commends and praises himself who is approved [by God], but it is the one whom the Lord commends and praises.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

But we pray unto God, that ye may do nothing base, - not that, we, may appear, accepted, but that, ye, the honourable thing, may be doing, even though, we, should be, as it were, rejected;