For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly

I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.

For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.