Passage cross-references.

I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: …

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. …

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.