For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;