15. And I shall most gladly spend and be spent for your lives. If I love you more and more, am I to be loved less?
16. But be it so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, did I catch you with guile?
17. Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
18. I urged Titus, and sent our brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit – not in the same steps?
19. Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before Elohim in Messiah. But all this, beloved, is for your upbuilding.
20. For I fear lest, when I come, I do not find you such as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish – lest there be strife, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, puffings up, unrests,