Now I will give you my opinion on this matter. For this is for your interest, because you were not only the first to do anything about it, but the first to want to do so; you started it a year ago.

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.