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Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.

Behold, the thirde time I am ready to come vnto you, and yet will I not be slouthfull to your hinderance: for I seeke not yours, but you: for the children ought not to laye vp for the fathers, but the fathers for the children.

And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.

Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

But by them which seemed to be great, I was not taught (whatsoeuer they were in time passed, I am nothing the better: God accepteth no mans person) for they that are the chiefe, did adde nothing to me aboue that I had.

For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.

I am crucified with Christ, but I liue, yet not I any more, but Christ liueth in me: and in that that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith in the Sonne of God, who hath loued me, and giuen him selfe for me.

I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

Be ye as I (for I am euen as you) brethren, I beseech you: ye haue not hurt me at all.

Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?

But it is a good thing to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you,

And I would I were with you nowe, that I might change my voyce: for I am in doubt of you.

For this cause, I Paul am the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles,

Whereof I am made a minister by the gift of the grace of God giuen vnto me through the effectuall working of his power.

Whereof I am the ambassadour in bonds, that therein I may speake boldely, as I ought to speake.

And I am persuaded of this same thing, that he that hath begunne this good worke in you, wil perfourme it vntill the day of Iesus Christ,

But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.

For I am distressed betweene both, desiring to be loosed and to be with Christ, which is best of all.

And this am I sure of, that I shal abide, and with you all continue, for your furtherance and ioy of your faith,