witness) lest satan should have got some advantage of us: for we are apprized of his artifices.

Make room for me in your hearts. I have not wronged or harmed or got the better of anybody.

For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

but I am glad now ??not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did;

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

Thus it is to give and take ??as it is written, He who got much had nothing over, and he who got little had not too little.

I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.

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.

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.

five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews,

And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.

But be that as it may, I did not burden you [with my support]. But [some say that] I was sly and took you by trickery.