I speak according to dishonor, as though we had been weak. But in whatever anyone is bold, I speak foolishly, I am bold also.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
I desire that ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
That which I speak, I speak it not after Yahweh, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Master hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;