7. Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself, that you might be exalted? Because I preached unto you the gospel of God freely?
8. I have taken from other churches, receiving wages of them for your ministry.
9. And, when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you, and so I will keep myself.
10. The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.
12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion, that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.
16. I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)
17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.
20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.
21. I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.
22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.
23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.