¹ Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

⁵ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. Cross refs

⁶ But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. Cross refs

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? Cross refs

⁸ I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Cross refs

¹¹ Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. Cross refs

¹⁴ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Cross refs

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. Cross refs

¹⁶ I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. Cross refs

¹⁷ That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Cross refs

¹⁸ Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. Cross refs

¹⁹ For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. Cross refs

²⁰ For 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. Cross refs

²¹ I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. Cross refs

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Cross refs

²³ Are 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. Cross refs

²⁴ Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Cross refs

²⁵ Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; Cross refs

²⁶ In 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; Cross refs

²⁷ In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Cross refs

²⁸ Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Cross refs

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? Cross refs

³⁰ If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. Cross refs

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. Cross refs

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: Cross refs

³³ And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. Cross refs