010:014 For there is no undue stretch of authority on our part, as though it did not extend to you. We pressed on even to Corinth, and were the first to proclaim to you the Good News of the Christ. 010:015 We do not exceed our due limits, and take credit for other men's labours; but we entertain the hope that, as your faith grows, we shall gain promotion among you-- still keeping within our own sphere--promotion to a larger field of labour, 010:016 and shall tell the Good News in the districts beyond you, not boasting in another man's sphere about work already done by him. 010:017 But "whoever boasts, let his boast be in the Lord." 010:018 For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends. 011:001 I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me. 011:002 I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy. For I have betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful bride to her one husband. 011:003 But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ. 011:004 If indeed some visitor is proclaiming among you another Jesus whom we did not proclaim, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the One you have already received or a Good News different from that which you have already welcomed, your toleration is admirable! 011:005 Why, I reckon myself in no respect inferior to those superlatively great Apostles. 011:006 And if in the matter of speech I am no orator, yet in knowledge I am not deficient. Nay, we have in every way made that fully evident to you. 011:007 Is it a sin that I abased myself in order for you to be exalted, in that I proclaimed God's Good News to you without fee or reward? 011:008 Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service. 011:009 And when I was with you and my resources failed, there was no one to whom I became a burden--for the brethren when they came from Macedonia fully supplied my wants-- and I kept myself from being in the least a burden to you, and will do so still. 011:010 Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece. 011:011 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do. 011:012 But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast. 011:013 For men of this stamp are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, assuming the garb of Apostles of Christ.