Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, ¹  and I do not burn with indignation?

Now I appeal to God as my witness, ¹  that to spare ²  you I did not come again to Corinth. ³ 

For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad ¹  but the one I caused to be sad?

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! 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 – 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 ¹  to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Now I, Paul, appeal to you ¹  personally ²  by the meekness and gentleness ³  of Christ (I who am meek ⁴  when present among ⁵  you, but am full of courage ⁶  toward you when away!) –

For how ¹  were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!