Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves before you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ; and all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

to which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

No man shall stop me of this boasting

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

But I have used none of these things, and I do not write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

The regions

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

Greet the church that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Asia to Christ.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

General references

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.