For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

But I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that it was to spare you that I came no more to Corinth;

Now when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door had been opened to me by the Lord,

and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.