not boasting in another man's sphere about work already
done by him.
010:017 But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord."
010:018 For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved,
but he whom the Lord commends.
011:001 I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting
on my part. Nay, do bear with me.
011:002 I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy. For I have
betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful
bride to her one husband.
011:003 But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve,
so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness
and their fidelity to Christ.
011:004 If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another Jesus
whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a Spirit
different from the One you have already received or a Good News
different from that which you have already welcomed,
your toleration is admirable!
011:005 Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those
superlatively great Apostles.
011:006 And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge
I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully
evident to you.
011:007 Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted,
in that I proclaimed God's Good News to you without fee or reward?
011:008 Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order
to do you service.
011:009 And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was
no one to whom I became a burden--for the brethren
when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants--