11. Why? Is it that I do not love you? Elohim knows!
12. And I shall go on doing as I do, in order to cut off the occasion from those desiring an occasion, so that in that which they boast, they might be found also as we are.
13. For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah.
14. And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light!
15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works!
16. Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little.
17. What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.
18. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too shall boast.
19. For you, being wise, put up with fools gladly!
20. For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face.
21. To my shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold – I say it in foolishness – I am bold also.
22. Are they Heḇrews? So am I. Are they Yisra’ĕlites? So am I. Are they the seed of Aḇraham? So am I.
23. Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.