Now, am I rejoicing in the sufferings on your behalf, and am filling up the things that lack of the tribulations of the Christ, in my flesh, in behalf of his body, which is the assembly,
For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies,—save that, I myself, would not allow myself to be a burden unto you? Forgive me this wrong!
What, then, is my reward? that, in telling the glad-message, free of cost, I should put the glad-message,—to the end I should not use to the full my right in the glad-message.
They, therefore, went rejoicing from the presence of the high-council; in that they had been accounted worthy, in behalf of The Name, to suffer dishonour.
In all things, I gave you to understand, that, thus toiling, it behoves to be helping the weak, also to be keeping in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, that, he himself, said—Happy is it, rather to give than to receive!