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

⁸ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

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.

⁸ For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

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.

³ I say it not to condemn `you': for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die together and live together.

¹¹ Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

⁷ even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.