But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.