¹² If others partake of this right over you, don't 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.

¹² But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

¹⁸ What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Gospel, I may present the Gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Gospel.

¹⁵ But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

⁷ Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Gospel free of charge?

⁸ I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

⁹ When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

⁸ neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

⁹ not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

⁶ nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

⁷ But we were gentle among of you, as when a nurse cherishes her own children.

⁸ Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

⁹ For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

²⁰ For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

³ We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

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

⁷ Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

¹⁴ I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

¹⁵ For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Gospel.

¹¹ Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

¹² We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

²² Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

³² Now, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

³³ I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

³ and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

⁵² Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn't enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered."

⁸ and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

⁵⁶ He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

¹³ For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

¹⁴ Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.