¹² Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

⁷ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

¹⁶ Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

¹² When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

² Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?