11. And why do I not burden you? Do you think it is because I don’t love you? God knows that I love you.
12. And I will continue doing what I am doing now, because I want to stop those people from having a reason to boast. They would like to say that the work they boast about is the same as ours.
13. They are false apostles, lying workers. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ.
14. That does not surprise us, because even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light.
15. So it does not surprise us if Satan’s servants make themselves look like servants who work for what is right. But in the end those people will get the punishment they deserve.
16. I tell you again: No one should think that I am a fool. But if you think I am a fool, then accept me as you would accept a fool. Then I can boast a little too.
17. But I am not talking the way the Lord would talk. I am boasting like a fool.