¹⁷ What I say by way of this confident boasting, I say not with the Lord’s authority [by inspiration] but, as it were, in pure witlessness.

¹⁸ [For] since many boast of worldly things and according to the flesh, I will glory (boast) also.

¹⁹ For you readily and gladly bear with the foolish, since you are so smart and wise yourselves!