5. I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles.
6. But though I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge, but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
7. Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8. I deprived the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9. And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10. It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
12. But what I do, I will continue to do that I may take away the occasion from those who desire it to be found like unto us in that in which they glory.