not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

Receive us---we have injured no man, we have corrupted no one, we have over-reached no one.

For behold this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you! yea, what apology, what indignation, what fear, what earnest desire, what zeal, what revenge! by all which ye have shewn yourselves to be clear in the affair.

as it is written, "He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack."

(as it is written, "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness continueth for ever."

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, having espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

And the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lye not.

Be it so, that I did not burden you myself, yet, may some say, being crafty I over-reached you by subtilty.