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.

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

¹⁵ In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

³³ even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

⁵ For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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

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.

¹¹ As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?

²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

² Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

³ neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

⁴ When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.

¹⁷ Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

¹ Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

¹⁴ Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

¹⁵ Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

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

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

²⁴ Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

³⁴ But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

⁵ But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

¹ This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word established."

² I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

³⁵ Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.

³⁶ Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.