² You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

¹ Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?

² If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

⁸ For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

¹⁰ In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

³ It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.

¹¹ Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

¹⁵ And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

⁷ So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.