010:015 We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you— still keeping within our own sphere—promotion to a larger field of labour,
010:016 and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, 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.