But I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not in the least inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

I warned those who sinned in the past and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present the second time, that if I come again I will not spare them