and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you,
and will do so still.
011:010 Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be
stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.
011:011 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
011:012 But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order
to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire
an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being
on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.
011:013 For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen,
assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.
011:014 And no wonder. Satan, their master, can disguise himself
as an angel of light.
011:015 It is therefore no great thing for his servants also
to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
011:016 To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I
am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance
for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they,
may boast a little.
011:017 What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command,
but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.
011:018 Since many boast for merely human reasons, I too will boast.
011:019 Wise as you yourselves are, you find pleasure in tolerating fools.
011:020 For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense,
makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes
you on the face.
011:021 I use the language of self-disparagement, as though I
were admitting our own feebleness. Yet for whatever
reason any one is `courageous'--I speak in mere folly--