For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?