boasting

For before these dayes rose vp Theudas, boasting himselfe to be some body, to whom a number of men, about foure hundred, ioyned themselues: who was slaine, and all, as many as obeied him, were scattered, & brought to nought.

1611 marginal noteOr, beleeued.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of works? Nay: but by the Law of faith.

For if I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in trueth, euen so our boasting which I made before Titus, is found a trueth.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the Churches, the proofe of your loue, & of our boasting on your behalfe.

Yet haue I sent the brethren, least our boasting of you should bee in vaine in this behalfe, that as I saide, yee may be readie.

Lest happily if they of Macedonia come with mee, & find you vnprepared, wee (that wee say not, you) should bee ashamed in this same confident boasting.

Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other mens labours, but hauing hope, when your faith is increased, that wee shall bee enlarged by you, according to our rule abundantly.

1611 marginal noteOr, magnified in you.

As the trueth of Christ is in mee, no man shall stop mee of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

1611 marginal noteGr. this boasting shal not be stopped in me.

That which I speake, I speake it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting.