10. As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12. But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we are in what they are boasting about.
13. For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
16. Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if you do, accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little.
17. What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord would say, but as in foolishness.
18. Since many are boasting according to human standards, I also will boast.
19. For because you are wise, you put up with foolish people gladly!
20. For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is presumptious toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.
21. I say this to my shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to boast—I am speaking in foolishness—I also dare to boast.
22. Are they Hebrews? I am also! Are they Israelites? I am also! Are they descendants of Abraham? I am also!
23. Are they servants of Christ?—I am speaking as though I were beside myself—I am more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in danger of death many times.
24. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes less one.
25. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.
26. I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers,
27. with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.
28. Apart from these external things, there is the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn with indignation?