(for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say,

least if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed (not to say you also) in this confident boasting.

But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

for his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.

Be it so, that I did not burden you myself, yet, may some say, being crafty I over-reached you by subtilty.

This, I say, is the third time I am coming to you: and at the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.