11. wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!
12. and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;
13. for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
14. and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;
15. no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness--whose end shall be according to their works.
16. Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.
17. That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
18. since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:
19. for gladly do ye bear with the fools--being wise,
20. for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;
21. in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold--in foolishness I say [it] --I also am bold.
22. Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!
23. ministrants of Christ are they? --as beside myself I speak--I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
24. from Jews five times forty [stripes] save one I did receive;
25. thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;