¹⁶ the one `do it' of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

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.

¹⁴ To him that is ready to faint kindness `should be showed' from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

⁴ I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

¹⁷ For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

¹ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

² but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁰ so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

¹² Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things `which happened' unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;