Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I am too.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?

But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not saddened me alone, but to some extent (not to exaggerate) he has saddened all of you as well.

so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?

Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Thus we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, so also he should complete this act of kindness for you.

If there is any question about Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; if there is any question about our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel –

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!