^{11 Ref} I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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

^{13 Ref} for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

^{14 Ref} Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

^{15 Ref} and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.