11 I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the leading apostles, though I am nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were performed among you in all patience, in signs and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 For in what respect were you inferior to other churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 I am ready to come to you this third time. And I will not be burdensome to you, for I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
16 But be that as it may. I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with deceit.
17 Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?