Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin,<n id="1" /> and I do not burn with indignation?

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I appeal to God as my witness,<n id="1" /> that to spare<n id="2" /> you I did not come again to Corinth.<n id="3" />

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad<n id="1" /> but the one I caused to be sad?

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives!<n id="1" /> 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 &#8211; 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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">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<n id="1" /> to those &#8220;super-apostles,&#8221; even though I am nothing.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now I, Paul, appeal to you<n id="1" /> personally<n id="2" /> by the meekness and gentleness<n id="3" /> of Christ (I who am meek<n id="4" /> when present among<n id="5" /> you, but am full of courage<n id="6" /> toward you when away!) &#8211;

For how<n id="1" /> were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!