For you put up with it if a man makes you his slaves, or lives on you, or takes you in, or puts on airs, or gives you a slap in the face.

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God.

For if I make you sad, who is there to make me glad but the very man who has been made sad by me?

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit.

If any man hath caused sorrow, the same hath not made me sorry: but partly - lest I should grieve - you all.

For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.