1. None whatever — and yet bear with me a little my brethren. Endure a little foolish boasting on my part.
5. and show myself not a whit behind even the most unmistakeable “apostle” of them all.
6. Even though my speech be not remarkable, my knowledge is above question, and you all of you know all about me, I have kept nothing back.
7. But the very things which I did specially for your sake they wrest to their own point of view, and bring against me — that you never paid me a salary, never kept me out of your funds,
12. I did it, because they do the same, and because I knew that if I did differently, they would turn that against me.