For I know your eagerness, of which I boast to Macedonia on your behalf, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has aroused the greater number.

For even if I also should boast somewhat more fully of our authority (which the Lord has given us for building up, and not for pulling you down) I will not be put to shame;

But we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure distributed to us, to reach even to you.

to preach the gospel in that beyond you, and not to boast in another's rule in things made ready.

But what I do, that I will do, so that I may cut off occasion from those who desire occasion; so that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little.

Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will boast.

If it is right to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I will glory of such a one, yet I will not boast on my behalf, except in my weaknesses.

For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as being beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;