Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?

Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad but the one I caused to be sad?

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him – for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Now I, Paul, appeal to you personally by the meekness and gentleness of Christ (I who am meek when present among you, but am full of courage toward you when away!) –

For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!