And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.