that as your present sufficiency supplies their wants, their sufficiency may supply your occasions another way: and thus there will be an equality.

for I dare not rank or compare my self with some who vaunt themselves: but they making their self-conceit the only standard whereby to judge of themselves, show their want of judgment.

when I was present among you, and in want, I was chargeable to no man: for the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied my necessities: and as I have, so I always shall keep myself from being burdensome to you.

since you demand a proof of my mission from Christ, who with regard to you has shown no want of power among you.