I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

according as it hath been written, 'He who did gather much, had nothing over; and he who did gather little, had no lack.'

for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,