5 For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.
6 For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.
7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.
8 I have taken from other churches, receiving a stipend from them to the benefit of your ministry.
9 And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
10 The truth of Christ is in me, and so this glorying shall not be broken away from me in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why so? Is it because I do not love you? God knows I do.