for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity -- but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,

Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

for not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,