So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

Our affection for you is not restricted, but you are restricted in your affections for us.

Now as a fair exchange – I speak as to my children – open wide your hearts to us also.

For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men.

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the sake of the truth.

and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia.

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.

Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

But I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.

Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

But you know it was because of a physical illness that I first proclaimed the gospel to you,

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.