Let me have your cooperation in prayer, so that many a soul may render thanks to him on my behalf for the boon which many have been the means of him bestowing on myself.

who stamped me with his seal and gave me the Spirit as a pledge in my heart.

I call God to witness against my soul, it was to spare you that I refrained from revisiting Corinth.

Now then, you are to the front in everything, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in love for us ??do come to the front in this gracious enterprise as well.

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.