14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.