2Cor 1:12, 2:17, Eph 4:14 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

2 Corinthians 1:12

Paul’s Change of Plans

12 For our boast is this, ^athe testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity ^{▼▼Some manuscripts holiness} and ^cgodly sincerity, ^dnot by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

2 Corinthians 2:17

17 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

14 so that we may no longer be children, ^etossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in ^fdeceitful schemes.