I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

I do not think I'm inferior in any way to those "super-apostles."

I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.

I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,