For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

and when I was present with you, and in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. And in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and so I will keep myself.

As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be silenced in me in the regions of Achaia.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

Receive us [in your hearts]. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

But I beseech [you] that when I am present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I plan to be bold toward some, who consider us as walking according to the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

For our exhortation [was] not from error nor from uncleanness, nor in trickery,

For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is [our] witness.

if indeed you tasted that the Lord is good.