10. Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
11. I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.
12. Indeed, the signs of an apostle have been done among you with all patient endurance, both signs and wonders and deeds of power.
13. For in what respect are you made worse off more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!