Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God.

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.