1

Would to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.

2

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

4

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].

5

For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

6

But though [I be] rude in speech, yet not in knowledge but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

7

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

8

I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service.

9

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

10

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

11

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

12

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

13

For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14

And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

15

Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works.