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.
13. For these men are false apostles, their work is not honest, they transform themselves indeed into apostles of the Christ.
14. But remember that Satan himself can appear as an angel of light,
15. and his servants, be sure, will do the same; if they can remain hidden, they will be in the guise of servants of this new perfection. Beware of them, and listen to my defence. Not one of them can say that any of the grounds I have for your confidence and trust is false or untrue.My boasting none can refute, no one in Achaia can gainsay it.