11. Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
13. For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers, masquerading as Messiah’s emissaries.
14. And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15. It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16. I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17. That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18. Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19. For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.