^{11 Ref} I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

^{12 Ref} Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.

^{13 Ref} For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

^{14 Ref} This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

^{15 Ref} And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?