But if anyone has caused grief, he didn't cause me any grief. To some extent I don't want to emphasize this too much it has affected all of you.

To some people we are a deadly fragrance, while to others we are a living fragrance. Who is qualified for this?

Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true.

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?