Some of the branches of the cultivated olive tree have been broken off, and a branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to it. You Gentiles are like that wild olive tree, and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews.

We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.

Here, I will write this with my own hand: I, Paul, will pay you back. (I should not have to remind you, of course, that you owe your very self to me.)