7. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8. I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9. When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10. As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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.