1. Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: nay indeed bear with me.
2. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
4. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him.
5. For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6. But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in everything we have made it manifest among all men to you-ward.
7. Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
8. I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;