5 I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles.
6 But though I am rude in speech, yet not in knowledge, but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that ye might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I deprived the other congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And when I was present with you and had need, I was not a burden to any of you, for that which was lacking to me was supplied by the brethren which came from Macedonia; and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 It is the truth of Christ in me that this glory shall not be sealed up unto me in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why? because I do not love you? God knows.