If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.

If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return.

I accept no credit from men,

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

However, I do not aim at my own credit; there is One who cares for my credit, and he is judge.

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

Titus is my colleague, he shares my work for you, and these brothers of mine are apostles of the church, a credit to Christ.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.