but we commend ourselves in every way as servants of God: in great endurance, in sufferings, in hardships, in distresses,

For if I have boasted to him at all concerning you, I was not disappointed. But just as everything we ever said to you was true, so our boasting [about you] to Titus has proved true also.

We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ,

It is necessary to boast, though nothing is gained by it; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.