⁷ concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

¹² let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

⁹ not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

⁸ not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

² but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

¹⁷ for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

²⁴ The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.

³³ `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

³⁴ and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

³⁵ all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth `us' to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'