For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of Yahweh, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of Yahweh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
Are they ministers of the Messiah? I speak as a fool I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths many times.