We behave undauntedly, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

Lest if any of the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) be ashamed of this confident boasting.

And this I say, He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully:

For his letters indeed, say they, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; but if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I also may boast a little.