16 I don't want any of you to think that I am a fool. But if you do, then let me be a fool and boast a little.
17 When I do all this boasting, I do it as a fool and not for the Lord.
18 Yet if others want to boast about what they have done, so will I.
19 And since you are so clever, you will gladly put up with a fool.
20 In fact, you let people make slaves of you and cheat you and steal from you. Why, you even let them strut around and slap you in the face.
21 I am ashamed to say that we are too weak to behave in such a way.If they can boast, so can I, but it is a foolish thing to do.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So am I. Are they from the family of Abraham? Well, so am I.