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!
15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works!
16. Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little.
17. What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.
18. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too shall boast.