For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

我们所夸的是自己的良心，见证我们凭着神的圣洁和诚实；在世为人不靠人的聪明，乃靠神的恩惠，向你们更是这样。

我们所夸的是：我们在世为人，特别是跟你们的关系，是凭着上帝所赐的坦率和真诚，不是靠人的聪明，而是靠上帝的恩惠；这是我们的良心可以作证的。

我们所夸的是：我们在世为人，特别是跟你们的关系，是凭着神所赐的坦率和真诚，不是靠人的聪明，而是靠神的恩惠；这是我们的良心可以作证的。

我们感到自豪的是：我们本着上帝所赐的圣洁和诚实为人处世，倚靠祂的恩典，不倚靠人的聪明才智，对待你们更是这样。这一点，我们的良心可以作证。

我们引以为荣的，就是我们处世为人，是本着神的圣洁和真诚，不是靠着人的聪明，而是靠着神的恩典，对你们更是这样，这是我们的良心可以作证的。

我们所夸耀的是这一点：我们的良心见证了我们在世上行事为人带着属神的忠实和真诚，不是靠属肉体的智慧，而是靠神的恩典；对你们更是如此。

我們所誇的是自己的良心，見證我們憑着神的聖潔和誠實；在世為人不靠人的聰明，乃靠神的恩惠，向你們更是這樣。

我們所誇的是：我們在世為人，特別是跟你們的關係，是憑着上帝所賜的坦率和真誠，不是靠人的聰明，而是靠上帝的恩惠；這是我們的良心可以作證的。

我們所誇的是：我們在世為人，特別是跟你們的關係，是憑着神所賜的坦率和真誠，不是靠人的聰明，而是靠神的恩惠；這是我們的良心可以作證的。

我們感到自豪的是：我們本著上帝所賜的聖潔和誠實為人處世，倚靠祂的恩典，不倚靠人的聰明才智，對待你們更是這樣。這一點，我們的良心可以作證。

我們引以為榮的，就是我們處世為人，是本著神的聖潔和真誠，不是靠著人的聰明，而是靠著神的恩典，對你們更是這樣，這是我們的良心可以作證的。

我們所誇耀的是這一點：我們良知的明證指出我們在世界上之起居為人、是怎樣本着上帝所賜的聖善和純潔，不是本着屬肉體的智慧，乃是本着上帝的恩；對於你們、更是如此。

我們所誇耀的是這一點：我們的良心見證了我們在世上行事為人帶著屬神的忠實和真誠，不是靠屬肉體的智慧，而是靠神的恩典；對你們更是如此。

夫我所以誇者、乃良心作證、非恃形軀之智、惟恃上帝之恩、以上帝所賦之聖與誠、為人於世、於爾曹為尤甚、

我非恃人智、恃上帝恩、以上帝所賦之丹心誠意、往來於世、在爾間為尤甚、此我所喜、心所證也、

我之良心、證我處世為人、常以天主所賜之誠心實意、不恃肉體之智慧、惟恃天主之恩寵、我在爾中更如是、此乃我所誇者也、

蓋吾儕所引以為榮、而問心無疚者、則吾儕立身處世、尤在爾我之間、一秉天主之正直及至誠、不徇私智、惟恃天主聖寵而已。

Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.

Here is what we take pride in. Our sense of what is right and wrong tells us how we have acted. We have lived with honor and godly honesty. We have depended on God’s grace and not on the world’s wisdom. We lived that way most of all when we were dealing with you.

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have lived with a God given holiness and sincerity in all our dealings. We have depended on God’s grace, not on our own human wisdom. That is how we have conducted ourselves before the world, and especially toward you.

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you- ward.

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said,“ Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you— not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?Even so, I myself didn’t burden you.“ But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.”Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

and said,“ Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me( yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

“ I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?“ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit( let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.“ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.“ If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?“ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it( no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.“ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold,‘ You are my confidence;’If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.“ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him( yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);if the men of my tent have not said,‘ Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’( the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the“ Yes, yes” and the“ No, no?”

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says,“ God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“ Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,