WNT(i)
9 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.
10 Christ knows that it is true when I say that I will not be stopped from boasting of this anywhere in Greece.
11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.
12 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.