| 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 17 | That which I speak , I speak [it] not after the Lord , but as it were foolishly , in this confidence of boasting . |
| 18 | Seeing that many glory after the flesh , I will glory also . |
| 19 | For ye suffer fools gladly , seeing ye [yourselves] are wise . |
| 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 . |
| 21 | I speak as concerning reproach , as though we had been weak . Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold , (I speak foolishly ,) I am bold also . |
| 22 | Are they Hebrews ? so [am] I . Are they Israelites ? so [am] I . Are they the seed of Abraham ? so [am] I . |
| 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 . |
| 24 | Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one . |
| 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 ; |
| 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 ; |
| 27 | In weariness and painfulness , in watchings often , in hunger and thirst , in fastings often , in cold and nakedness . |
| 28 | Beside those things that are without , that which cometh upon me daily , the care of all the churches . |
| 29 | Who is weak , and I am not weak ? who is offended , and I burn not ? |
| 30 | If I must needs glory , I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities . |
| 31 | The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , which is blessed for evermore , knoweth that I lie not . |
| 32 | In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison , desirous to apprehend me : |
| 33 | And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall , and escaped his hands . |
