For we write no other things to you than those which you know and acknowledge; and I trust also ye will acknowledge them even to the end.

To the one we are the odour of death unto death, to the other the odour of life unto life: and who is sufficient for these things?

I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

For I mean not that there should be ease for others and a burden on you;

According as it is written, "He that [gathered] much had no more than others, and he who [gathered] little, had no less."

not boasting ourselves unmeasurably in other men's labours; but having hope that when your faith is increased, we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule for more abundant usefulness,

I plundered other churches, receiving a provision from them, in order to minister to you.

For what is there wherein ye have been inferior to the other churches, except that I have not been burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.