though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.*
Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Messiah after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
*We, being Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,