For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours!

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

Again I say, no one should think I am foolish, but if you do, [then] accept me that way, so that I too can boast a little bit.

since you are seeking the approval of Christ, who is speaking in me, who is not weak towards you, bit mighty among you.