"But should ye say, `Why persecute we him?'--seeing the root of the matter is found in me.

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

But let every man put to the proof his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

"No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

What ye know, the same do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.