8. Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages from them to serve you.
9. And when I was present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for what was lacking to me the brothers who came from Makedonia supplied. And in every way I kept myself – and shall keep – from being a burden to you.
10. It is a truth of Messiah in me, that this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the districts of Achaia.
11. Why? Is it that I do not love you? Elohim knows!
12. And I shall go on doing as I do, in order to cut off the occasion from those desiring an occasion, so that in that which they boast, they might be found also as we are.
13. For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah.
14. And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light!