Paul and the False Apostles

1 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

Paul’s Sufferings as an Apostle

16 I repeat, ^rlet no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying ^swith this boastful confidence, ^tI say not as the Lord would¹ but as a fool.

6 though if I should wish to boast, ^eI would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 ^pI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was ^qnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, ^reven though I am nothing.