But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instea
Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your
When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also
Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for