Relying on this I meant to visit you first, to let you have a double delight;

I wrote to you out of great sorrow and anguish of heart along with many tears not to make you sad but to let you know how much love I have for you.

So my letter was written to you, not on account of the offender nor for the sake of the injured party, but in order to let you realize before God how seriously you do care for me.

But we desire to let you know, brethren, of the grace of God which has been bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia;

and begged me most earnestly, of their own accord, to let them share in the support of their fellow-Christians.

I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,

Did I do wrong in taking a lowly place to let you have an exalted one, in that I preached the good news about God to you without accepting any pay?