and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.

For indeed in this we groan, ardently desiring to have put on our house which is from heaven;

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;

Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth;

lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, that we say not ye, may be put to shame in this confidence.

For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given to us for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;