ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.