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

to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. 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 this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.