10:8 Though I should boast... I should not be ashamed. A comparison of claims to privilege and authority would not put him to shame.
Not for your destruction. His power and authority were given to save men; he desires not to have to use them to fulminate censures.
10:8 I should not be ashamed - As having said more than I could make good.
10:7-11 In outward appearance, Paul was mean and despised in the eyes of some, but this was a false rule to judge by. We must not think that none outward appearance, as if the want of such things proved a man not to be a real Christian, or an able, faithful minister of the lowly Saviour.
