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And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.

For am I now persuading men, or God? or am I seeking to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.

I beseech you, brethren, be as I am, for I am as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:

So then am I become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But it is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

yea, I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.

But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumblingblock of the cross been done away.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel:

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;