Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.

But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.

But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.

We will not give glory to ourselves in over-great measure, but after the measure of the rule which God has given us, a measure which comes even to you.

In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me: