I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee, that thou owest me thy own self also.
See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.
Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.
To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Savior.
To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:
I take the boy upon me; require him at my hand. Unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.
Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent, am bold toward you.
And if he hath wronged thee in any thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my account.