What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.