But if any one has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measurenot to put it too severelyto all of you.

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

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For we do not dare 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.