For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?