as I also please all men in all matters, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they might be saved.
if somehow I might provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
so we, the many, are one body in Messiah, and members each one of one another.
Let no one seek his own, but each one that of the other.
does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,
See, I am ready to come to you for the third time. And I shall not be a burden to you, for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children should not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before Elohim in Messiah. But all this, beloved, is for your upbuilding.
For do I now persuade men, or Elohim? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be a servant of Messiah.
For all seek their own interests, not those of Messiah יהושע.
forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they might be saved, so as to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.