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| [1]Would to God, ye could suffer a little my foolishness, and in deed, ye suffer me. |
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| [2]For I am jealous over you, with godly jealousy: for I have prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ: |
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| [3]But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christ. |
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| [4]For if he that cometh, preacheth another Jesus than him whom we have preached: or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received: either another Gospel, than that ye have received, ye might well have suffered him. |
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| [5]Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles. |
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| [6]And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you we have been made manifest to the utmost, in all things. |
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| [7]Have I committed an offence, because I abased myself, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you the Gospel of God freely? |
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| [8]I robbed other Churches, and took wages of them to do you service. |
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| [9]And when I was present with you, and had need, I was not slothful to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all things I kept and will keep myself that I should not be grievous to you. |
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| [10]The truth of Christ is in me, that this rejoicing shall not be shut up against me in the regions of Achaia. |
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| [11]Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth. |
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| [12]But what I do, that will I do: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like unto us in that wherein they rejoice. |
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| [13]For such false apostles are deceitful workers, and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ. |
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| [14]And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light. |
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| [15]Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. |
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| [16]I say again, let no man think, that I am foolish: or else take me even as a fool, that I also may boast myself a little. |
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| [17]That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting. |
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| [18]Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also. |
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| [19]For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise. |
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| [20]For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. |
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| [21]I speak as concerning the reproach: as though that we had been weak: but wherein any man is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also. |
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| [22]They are Hebrews, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I: |
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| [23]They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant: in stripes above measure: in prison more plenteously: in death oft. |
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| [24]Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. |
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| [25]I was thrice beaten with rods: I was once stoned: I suffered thrice shipwreck: night and day have I been in the deep sea. |
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| [26]In journeying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, |
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| [27]In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. |
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| [28]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches. |
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| [29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? |
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| [30]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities. |
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| [31]The God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
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| [32]In Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me. |
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| [33]But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands. |
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