Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;

you also striving together for us in prayer, that thanks may be rendered for us by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by many.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

And I most gladly will spend and will be spent for your souls, even if the more abundantly I love you the less I am loved.