to keep Satan from getting the better of us. For we know what he is after.

Make room for me in your hearts. I have not wronged or harmed or got the better of anybody.

Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!