¹⁶ So as I said before, please don’t mark me a fool; but if you must, then please accept me even as that and give me a little more room to boast. ¹⁷ What I am saying now is not in character with our Lord but is the bragging of a self-assured fool. ¹⁸ Just as other fools brag according to their worldly accomplishments, so I, too, will have to boast;