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For in what fell ye short of the other churches; except in this, that I was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this fault.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.

15 And cheerfully will I both pay [fn] expenses, and also give myself for your souls; although the more I love you, the less ye love me.

19 Do ye again suppose, that we would apologize to you? Before God, in the Messiah we speak: and all these things, my beloved, [fn] for the sake of your edification.

20 For I fear, lest I should come to you and not find you such as I would wish; and lest I also should be found by you, such as ye would not wish; lest [fn] contention, and envying, and anger, and obstinacy, and slandering, and murmuring, and insolence, and commotion;

For, though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth with the power of God. We also are weak with him; yet we are alive with him, by that power of God which is among you.

8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but [fn] for the truth.

And we rejoice, when we are weak and ye are strong. And this also we pray for, that ye may be perfected.

Therefore, while absent, I write these things; lest when I come, I should act with rigor, according to the authority which my Lord hath given me for your edification, and not for your destruction.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this evil world, agreeably to the pleasure of God our Father:

to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I had till now pleased men, I should not have been a servant of the Messiah.

For I did not receive it and learn it from man, but [fn] by revelation from Jesus the Messiah.

For ye have heard of my former course of life in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God exceedingly, and destroyed it:

and that I went much farther in Judaism than many of my contemporaries who were of my nation, and was peculiarly zealous for the doctrine of my fathers.

not for the space of an hour, did we throw ourselves into subjection to them; so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

And they who were esteemed prominent, (what they were, I care not; for God regardeth not the persons of men,)even these persons added nothing to me.

But, otherwise; for they saw, that the gospel of the uncircumcision was intrusted to me, as to Cephas was intrusted that of the circumcision.

For he that was operative with Cephas in the legateship of the circumcision, was also operative with me in the legateship of the Gentiles.

For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles: but when they came, he withdrew himself, and separated; because he was afraid of them of the circumcision.