For we are not as the many, who adulterate the word of God; but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Having therefore such hope, we use great plainness of speech;

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke," we also believe, and therefore speak;

So then in return, I speak to you as children, let your hearts be enlarged.

for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth;

I speak not by way of command, but by reason of the earnestness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.

For his letters, saith one, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

And though I am rude in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; but this did we in every respect manifest to you in all things.

What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

I say it to my reproach, that we were weak; but in whatever any one is bold, (I speak in folly,) I am bold also.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;