they begged us insistently for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints,

So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;

Three times I begged the Lord about this to make it go away and leave me,

I begged Titus, and sent the brother with him: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? have we not in the same steps?