For if I [cause] you sorrow, then who will make me glad except the one who is caused to be sad by me?

who also makes us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

{Make room for us in your hearts}. We have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have defrauded no one.

Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

Therefore I considered [it] necessary to urge the brothers that they should go on ahead to you and make arrangements in advance for your generous gift that was promised previously, so this would be prepared as a generous gift and not as grudgingly granted.