7. But the very things which I did specially for your sake they wrest to their own point of view, and bring against me — that you never paid me a salary, never kept me out of your funds,
8-11. that I preached the gospel in independence, as a free gift, that I humbled myself, and would not be paid anything for my services, but rather was helped by other churches in Asia, and laid no burden upon you? Was this sin in me?
12. I did it, because they do the same, and because I knew that if I did differently, they would turn that against me.
13. For these men are false apostles, their work is not honest, they transform themselves indeed into apostles of the Christ.
14. But remember that Satan himself can appear as an angel of light,