6. Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.
7. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8. I robbed other communities by taking wages from them for service to you.
9. When I was present with you and I was in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and I will continue to do so.
10. As the truth of Messiah is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12. But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off the opportunity from those who want an opportunity in what they boast about to also be regarded just as we are.