Is not my help within me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of bronze?
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
