5. For I reckon that I am not inferior to the most eminent emissaries.
6. But even if I am unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge. Indeed, in every way we have been manifested among you in all matters.
7. Or did I commit sin in humbling myself in order to exalt you, because I brought good news, the Good News of Elohim to you without being paid?
8. Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages from them to serve you.
9. And when I was present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for what was lacking to me the brothers who came from Makedonia supplied. And in every way I kept myself – and shall keep – from being a burden to you.
10. It is a truth of Messiah in me, that this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the districts of Achaia.
11. Why? Is it that I do not love you? Elohim knows!