¹⁴ Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going.^(A) But you have no idea where I come from^(B) or where I am going.

²⁸ I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”^(A)

³ Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power,^(A) and that he had come from God^(B) and was returning to God;

¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?^(A) The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.^(B) Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,^(A) for I have come here from God.^(B) I have not come on my own;^(C) God sent me.^(D)

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴ “To the angel of the church in Laodicea^(A) write:

¹⁹ Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God^(A) as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends,^(B) is for your strengthening.^(C)

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

¹¹ I have made a fool of myself,^(A) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”^[a](B) even though I am nothing.^(C)

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever,^(A) knows^(B) that I am not lying.