For God is not unjust. Hᴇ will not forget y’all’s work and the love y’all have shown toward ʜɪꜱ name by serving the saints and continuing to serve them.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not futile. No, I worked more than all of them–yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But let each one be careful how they build.
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they have become indebted to them. For if the ethnic groups have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in material things.
As a household manager for God, the overseer must be unaccusable, not arrogant, not quick-tempered, not always around wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,
The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?
But after y’all have suffered a little while, may the God of all grace, who called y’all to his eternal glory in Christ, restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish y’all.
Through Silvanus, our faithful sibling, as I consider him, I have written to y’all briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it, y’all!