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But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little.

What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.

Of such [a one] I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.

For if I shall desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will say [the] truth; but I forbear, lest any one should think as to me above what he sees me [to be], or whatever he may hear of me.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But be it so. *I* did not burden you, but being crafty I took you by guile.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)

But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that *we* may appear approved, but that *ye* may do what is right, and *we* be as reprobates.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God [the] Father who raised him from among [the] dead,

which is not another [one]; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ.

But if even *we* or an angel out of heaven announce as glad tidings to you [anything] besides what we have announced as glad tidings to you, let him be accursed.

But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught [them], but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

But when God, who set me apart [even] from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace,