If you should say, 'How shall we persecute him?' -- Since the root of the matter is found in me,

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

But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

"No doubt you [are] the people, And wisdom will die with you!

But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not [know] such things as these?

What you know, I also know; I [am] not inferior to you.