We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.