For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.