Now the Lord here means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet,

For even when I reached Macedonia, my poor human nature could get no relief??here was trouble at every turn; fighting without, and fear within.

I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

Here it is the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I do not intend to be a burden to you now; for it is not your money but yourselves that I want; for children are not expected to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.