11. I have been a fool, glorying; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you, for in nothing am I behind the grandiose apostles, though I am nothing.
12. Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and power.
13. For what is it in which ye were inferior to the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} except in that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14. Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not your things, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15. And I will very gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
16. But be it so, I did not burden you; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17. Did I make a gain of you by any of those whom I sent unto you?