6. But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.
7. Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
8. I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
9. And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.
10. The truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
12. But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.