in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.
`because the letters indeed -- saith one -- `are' weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'
O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;