Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

with you also helping together by prayer for us, so that the gracious gift by many persons be the cause of thanksgiving through many for us.

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest by the great confidence which I have in you.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved the less.