47:010:009 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

47:010:010 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his
           bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

47:010:011 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by
           letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when
           we are present.

47:010:012 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
           ourselves with some that commend themselves:  but they
           measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves
           among themselves, are not wise.

47:010:013 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but
           according to the measure of the rule which God hath
           distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

47:010:014 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we
           reached not unto you:  for we are come as far as to you also in
           preaching the gospel of Christ: 

47:010:015 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other
           men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased,
           that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule
           abundantly,

47:010:016 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to
           boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

47:010:017 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

47:010:018 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the
           Lord commendeth.

47:011:001 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly:  and
           indeed bear with me.

47:011:002 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy:  for I have
           espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a
           chaste virgin to Christ.

47:011:003 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
           through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from
           the simplicity that is in Christ.

47:011:004 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
           not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have
           not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted,
           ye might well bear with him.

47:011:005 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest
           apostles.

47:011:006 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
           have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

47:011:007 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be
           exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God
           freely?

47:011:008 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you
           service.