ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.