15. It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16. I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17. That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18. Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19. For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.