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But let him who saith so, consider this, that such as we are in our epistolary discourse, when absent, such also are we in action, when present.

For we dare not value, or compare ourselves, with those who vaunt: but they, because they compare themselves with themselves, are not wise.

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but within the measure of the limits which God hath imparted to us, that we should reach as far as you.

15 And we do not glory beyond our measure, in the toil of others: but we have the hope, that when your faith shall mature, we shall be magnified by you, as [fn] our measure;

But let him that will glory, glory in the Lord.

For not he who praiseth himself, is approved; but he whom the Lord praiseth.

But I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah.

For, though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been manifest among you.

But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

17 What I am [fn] saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.

Glorying must be, but it is not profitable: so I proceed to visions and revelations of our Lord.

2 I knew a man in the Messiah fourteen years ago, (but whether in a body, or whether out of a body, I know not; God knoweth:) who was caught up to the third [fn] of heaven.

And I knew this same man; (but whether in a body, or out of a body, I know not; God knoweth;)

Of him I will glory: but of myself I will not glory, except in my infirmities.

Yet if I were disposed to glory, I should not be without reason; for I declare the truth. But I refrain, lest any one should think of me, beyond what he seeth in me and heareth from me.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours, but you: for children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.

But perhaps, though I was not burdensome to you, yet, like a cunning man, I filched from you by craftiness !

because ye demand proof, that it is the Messiah that speaketh by me, who hath not been powerless among you, but powerful among you.

But, I trust, ye will know that we are not reprobates.

8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but [fn] for the truth.