I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.