So what benefit ¹  did you then reap ²  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

I do not want you to be unaware, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles. ³