So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up before hand your bounty, of which ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.