For this very purpose also I wrote you (before), that I might test you, to see if you were obedient in every respect.

because I am on my guard in this, that no one should blame me, in respect to this bounty which I am administering.

For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.

I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!