^{11 Ref} I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

^{12 Ref} Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

^{13 Ref} For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

^{14 Ref} Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

^{15 Ref} And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.