Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

by the message of truth, by the power of God; through weapons of righteousness on the right hand and the left,

For if I have made any boast to him about you, I have not been embarrassed; but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, so our boasting to Titus has also turned out to be the truth.

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

For we are not able to do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.