but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing [it],

and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,

in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ;

that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

if to others I am not an apostle -- yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --