I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. However wherever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
If only you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed do bear with me.
That which I speak, I do not speak it according to the Lord, but as if foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Therefore I write these things being absent, so that being present I need not use severity, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.
By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;