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Who is weak, and I am not weak ? Who is offended, and I burn not ?

For this cause I am willing in infirmities, in reviling, in affliction, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of the Meshiha; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Behold, I have been deficient in mind in my boasting, because you have constrained me; for you were debtors to bear witness concerning me; because in nothing am I less than those apostles who are the most eminent, nevertheless I am not any thing.

Therefore while distant I write these (things), that when I am come I may not act severely, according to the power which my Lord hath given me for your edification, and not for your destruction.

I am amazed how soon you have been turned from the Meshiha himself, who called you by his grace,

For I by the law to the law am dead, that unto Aloha I may live:

and with the Meshiha am I crucified, and from henceforth I live not, but in me liveth Meshiha; and this that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Aloha, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I am afraid, lest vain in I have laboured among you.

Be you as I am, for I am as you are, my brethren, I beseech you. In nothing have you injured me.

But it is well to be emulous in good things at all time, and not only when I am with you.

I would be with you now, and change the sound of my voice, because I am astonished at you.

I am confident of you in our Lord, that no other thing you will think; and he who disturbeth you shall bear judgment, whoever he is.

But to me let it not be that I shall glory except in the cross of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, by which the world is crucified unto me, and I am crucified to the world.

On account of this I, Paulos, am bound for Jeshu Meshiha for the sake of you Gentiles:

of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of Aloha, which he hath given me by the operation of his power.

To me, who am the least of all the saints, is given this grace, that I should preach among the Gentiles the riches of the Meshiha,

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may speak with freedom, as it behoveth me to speak it.

But that you may know also what relateth to me, and what I am doing, behold, Tykikos, a brother beloved, and a faithful minister of our Lord, will make known to you;

because I am confident of this, that he who hath begun good workings in you will himself make perfect until the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

and in the love of the Meshiha; for they know that for the defence of the gospel I am appointed.