For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end;

So that on the other hand, ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such one should be swallowed up with excessive sorrow.

To the one we are the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

For I mean not that other men should be eased, and you burdened:

Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you, according to our rule abundantly,

I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

For what is that in which ye were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;