16 I don't want any of you to think I am a fool. But if you do, then let me be a fool and brag a little.
17 When I do all this bragging, I do it as a fool and not for the Lord.
18 Yet if others want to brag about what they have done, so will I.
19 And since you are so smart, 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 we are too weak to behave in such a way.If they can brag, 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.