¹² We are not ^(A)again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an ^(B)opportunity to boast of us, so that you will have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

⁴ Great is my ^(A)boldness toward you; great is my ^(B)boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with ^(C)comfort; I am overflowing with ^(D)joy in all our affliction.

¹⁶ holding ^[a]fast the word of life, so that in ^(A)the day of Christ I will have reason to boast because I did not ^(B)run in vain nor ^(C)labor in vain.