Now when I was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that there should be with me yea and nay?

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Therefore if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation: the old things are passed way; behold, all things are become new:

Now therefore compleat the work, that as there was a ready will, so there may be also a performance, in proportion to what ye have.

For if there be first a ready mind, a man is accepted, according to what he hath, not according to what he hath not.

let your abundance be at this time a supply to their want; that their abundance also may be a supply to your want, that there may be an equality,

And lest I should be lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be lifted up.

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,