If others be partners of your power, why not rather we? But we use not this power, but we suffer all things, that we give no hindering to the evangel of Christ.
And I myself, Paul, beseech you, by the mildness and softness, [or patience], of Christ, which in the face am meek among you, and I absent trust in you.
For, brethren, ye be mindful of our travail and weariness; we worked night and day, that we should not grieve any of you, and preached to you the gospel of God.