It was with this confidence that I planned at first to visit you, so that you might receive twice a token of grace;

and He died for all, so that all those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and was raised for their sake.

Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.