So that we from this time know no one after the flesh; yea, if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For behold, this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge? In all things ye have approved yourselves to be pure in this matter.

And by their prayer for you, who long after you, for the exceeding grace of God, which is in you.

I beseech, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold toward some, who think of us as walking after the flesh:

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

What I speak, I speak not after the Lord; but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Seeing many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.