I have become a fool; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.

According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.

For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.