American Standard Version of 1901
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Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.