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For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God commendeth.

For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with him.

The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

That which I speak, I speak not according to God: but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.

They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven.

For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me.

And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.

Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.

Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Therefore I write these things, being absent, that, being present, I may not deal more severely, according to the power which the Lord hath given me unto edification and not unto destruction.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead:

Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.