that is, to go by you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on to Judea.

If the meaning of the good news I preach is covered up at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

I send with them another brother of ours, whom I have often in many ways tested and found to be enthusiastic, but now he is more enthusiastic than ever, because of his great confidence in you.

Now this is the way it is: Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly too, but whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully too.

In every way you will grow richer and richer so as to give with perfect liberality, which will through me result in thanksgiving to God for it.

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

But when I talk in this boastful confidence, I am not talking in accordance with the way the Lord talked, but just as a fool talks.