For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

for according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

For we do not stretch ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not to you; (for as far as even to you did we come, in the gospel of Christ;)

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions beyond you; not boasting, in anothers line, of things made ready to our hand.