1. I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.
2. For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3. But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.
4. For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.
5. For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.
6. For although I may be unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. But, in all things, we have been made manifest to you.
7. Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.