For indeed you do so toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you increase more and more,

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but [rather] become a pattern for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

in all respects showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, dignity, incorruptibility,

nor as being masters over the flock [under you], but rather being examples to the flock.

For from you the word of the Lord has resounded, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.

and from there to Philippi, which is chief of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were spending some days in that very city.

And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; both Peter and James and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Now after these things, having departed from Athens, Paul came to Corinth.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

for I know your readiness, about which I boast concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has provoked the majority.

and when I was present with you, and in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. And in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia.