For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence.

For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,