who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

AND I make known to you, brothers, the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

And God is able to make every favor abound to you, that having always every sufficiency in every thing you may abound in every good work;

Did I make any thing out of you by any of those I sent to you?

I requested Titus, and sent the brother with him; did Titus make any thing out of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit, in the same steps?