We continued the voyage from Tyre ¹  and arrived at Ptolemais, ²  and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice ¹  in the hope of God’s glory.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we? ¹ 

Make room for us in your hearts; ¹  we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, ²  we have exploited no one. ³ 

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified. ¹ 

So we must not grow weary ¹  in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up. ² 

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know. ¹ 

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking ¹  in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing ²  the truth.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, ¹  we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

We know that ¹  we have crossed over ²  from death to life ³  because ⁴  we love our fellow Christians. ⁵  The one who does not love remains in death. ⁶ 

and ¹  whatever we ask we receive from him, because ²  we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing to him.

We set sail ¹  from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. ²  The next day we approached ³  Samos, ⁴  and the day after that we arrived at Miletus. ⁵ 

When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly. ¹ 

But we must ¹  run aground on some island.”

We put in ¹  at Syracuse ²  and stayed there three days.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

Do we not have the right to financial support? ¹