We’ll be focusing on verses 15 through 18. You can find they’re on page 957 if you’re using one of our church Bibles. You will remember, if you’ve been with us, the story so far. Paul is responding to a letter that has reached him from Corinth raising a number of practical and theological questions that were troubling the believers there. And beginning last week, we saw Paul defending his ministry against those at Corinth who were dismissing and belittling it because, unlike the orators popular in Greek culture at the time, Paul refused to accept payment for his preaching. And so they’d begun to suggest that maybe he wasn’t a real apostle after all. They were trying to undermine his ministry and they did it, of course, because if he wouldn’t take their cash, he couldn’t really be controlled by his benefactors. They couldn’t pull the strings. Paul refused remuneration and so they had no favors to call in on him.