But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well.