Because I was confident, I planned to come to you first so you might receive a double blessing.

Therefore, we are always confident, and we know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord.

We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.

Look at the plain facts! If anyone is confident that he belongs to the Messiah, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to the Messiah, so do we.

When I talk as a confident boaster, I am not talking with the Lord's authority but like a fool.