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15 So it is not strange if his workers also try to make themselves look like God's workers who do right. They will come to an end like the work they do! think that I am foolish. But if you do, then please listen to me as if I were foolish. I also want to do a little talking about myself.

16 I am not talking like the Lord when I say this. It seems foolish to say so much about myself.

17 Many people talk about themselves in the world. So I will too.

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15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.(A)

Paul Boasts About His Sufferings

16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool.(B) But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. 17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would,(C) but as a fool.(D)

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