1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.studyinterlinear
2For 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.studyinterlinear
3But 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.studyinterlinear
4For 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.studyinterlinear
5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.studyinterlinear
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.studyinterlinear
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?studyinterlinear
8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.studyinterlinear
9And 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.studyinterlinear
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.studyinterlinear
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.studyinterlinear
12But 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.studyinterlinear
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.studyinterlinear
14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.studyinterlinear
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.studyinterlinear
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.studyinterlinear
17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.studyinterlinear
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.studyinterlinear
19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.studyinterlinear
20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.studyinterlinear
21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.studyinterlinear
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.studyinterlinear
23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.studyinterlinear
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.studyinterlinear
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;studyinterlinear
26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;studyinterlinear
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.studyinterlinear
28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.studyinterlinear
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?studyinterlinear
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.studyinterlinear
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.studyinterlinear
32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:studyinterlinear
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.studyinterlinear