Therefore, since we have such hope, we use much boldness;

Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and fairness of Christ; who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

But I beseech you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I figure on being bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

I speak in dishonor, as though we had been weak. But in whatever anyone is bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.

But even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel of God to you in much conflict.

Nor did we seek honor from men, either from you or from others, when we might have been authoritative as apostles of Christ.

For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed;