¹¹ Let such a one think this: that as such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, we will also be in deed when we are present.

¹² For we dare not reckon ourselves among, or compare ourselves to, those who praise themselves. But they do not understand that they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with themselves.

¹³ But we will not boast of things which are not measurable, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us; a measure to reach even to you.