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But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,

But that I may not be thought as it were to terrify you by epistles,

(For his epistles indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible):

For we dare not match or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but we measure ourselves by ourselves and compare ourselves with ourselves.

But we will not glory beyond our measure: but according to the measure of the rule which God hath measured to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

Not glorying beyond measure in other men’s labours: but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God commendeth.

Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me.

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge: but in all things we have been made manifest to you.

But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing but in my infirmities.

For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.

For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.