For neither at any time were we found, using words of flattery, - even as ye know, nor a pretext for greed - God, is witness!

For ye remember, brethren, our toil and hardship: night and day, working, so as not to be a burden unto any of you, we proclaimed unto you the glad-message of God,

For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.

See that none, evil for evil, unto any, do render: but, evermore, what is good, be pursuing, towards one another, and towards all: