Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

and I am fully prepared to punish every act of disobedience, when once your submission has been put beyond question.

Would that you could put up with a little "folly" from me! Nay, do bear with me.

Although you are wise, you put up with fools willingly enough!

You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?