¹⁵ For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet `have ye' not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.

²³ having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ I Paul write it with mine own hand, I will repay it: that I say not unto thee that thou owest to me even thine own self besides.

¹⁰ I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

¹¹ who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:

¹² whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

⁴ to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

¹ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

² Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

³ being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables `that are' hearts of flesh.

²³ And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

¹⁴ Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

¹² If others partake of `this' right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

² If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

²⁰ yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was `already' named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

⁴ And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

⁶ And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood `be' upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

⁷ And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

⁸ And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

⁹ And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:

¹⁰ for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.

¹¹ And he dwelt `there' a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.