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What I am saying, not according to the Lord, am I saying, but as in foolishness, - in this my boastful confidence!

On behalf of such a one as this, will I boast, but, on behalf of myself, will I not boast, save in my weaknesses; -

Although in fact, if I should wish to boast, I shall not be foolish, for, the truth, would I speak; but I forbear, lest anyone, unto me, should reckon above what he beholdeth me to be , or heareth from me, - even by the exceeding greatness of the revelations.

Lo! this third time, I am holding myself, in readiness, to come unto you, and I will not allow myself to be a burden; for I seek not yours, but you; - for, the children, ought not to lay up, for the parents, but the parents for the children; -

But let it be! - I, myself, did not burden you, - Notwithstanding, being crafty, with guile, I caught you?

All this time, think ye, that, unto you, we are making a defence? Before God in Christ, we speak; - but all these things, beloved, for your upbuilding.

Since, a test, ye are seeking, of the speaking in me of Christ; - who, unto you, is not weak, but is powerful in you, -

But we pray unto God, that ye may do nothing base, - not that, we, may appear, accepted, but that, ye, the honourable thing, may be doing, even though, we, should be, as it were, rejected;

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

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

But, even if, we, or, a messenger out of heaven, announce a glad-message unto youaside from that which we announced unto you, accursed, let him be!

For neither, from man, did I accept it, nor was taught it , - but through a revealing of Jesus Christ.

But, when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me through his favour, was well-pleased

Neither went I up unto Jerusalem unto them who, before me, were apostles, - but I went away into Arabia, and again returned unto Damascus.

But, other of the apostles, saw I none, save James the brother of the Lord: -

But, not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised; -

But, this was because of the false brethren secretly introduced, - who, indeed, came in secretly to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: -

But, on the contrary, - when they saw that I had been entrusted with the glad-message to the uncircumcision, even as, Peter, with that to the circumcision,

But, when Cephas came unto Antioch, to the face, even , him, I resisted, because he stood condemned;

But, when I saw that they were not walking with straightforwardness as regardeth the truth of the glad-message, I said unto Cephas, before all: If, thou, although, a Jew, like them of the nations, and not like the Jews, dost live, how dost thou compel, them of the nations, to live like Jews?