After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my good friend Stachys.

I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

I thank my God every time I remember you.

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David; such is my gospel,

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.