But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.

to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?

I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.

I do not urge you to give in order that others may have relief while you are unduly pressed,

We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you--still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour,

Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

I begged Titus to visit you, and sent our other brother with him. Did Titus gain any selfish advantage over you? Were not he and I guided by one and the same Spirit, and did we not walk in the same steps?