And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,