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for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise,

for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, [are] for your up-building,

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

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.

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

for neither did I from man receive it, nor was I taught [it], but through a revelation of Jesus Christ,