¹⁵ so why should we expect less from his servants—plodding over the earth, pretending to be ministers of righteousness—but in the end, they’ll get what’s coming to them.

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.