I say again, let no one think me to be foolish. Otherwise if not, at least receive me as being foolish, that I also may boast a little.

Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.

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

I have become foolish in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.

It is not good to eat much honey; so, to search out one's own glory is not glory.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Thus says Jehovah, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches;

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says Jehovah.

Of such a one I will exult; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.

And so that I should not be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I should not be made haughty.

And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather exult in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell upon me.

I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of His body, which is the church,