1. I wish that you would bear with me in a little folly. But indeed, you are bearing with me.
2. For I am jealous for you with a jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband, to present you as an innocent maiden to Messiah.
3. But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived Ḥawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
4. For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another יהושע, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough!
5. For I reckon that I am not inferior to the most eminent emissaries.
6. But even if I am unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge. Indeed, in every way we have been manifested among you in all matters.
7. Or did I commit sin in humbling myself in order to exalt you, because I brought good news, the Good News of Elohim to you without being paid?
8. Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages from them to serve you.
9. And when I was present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for what was lacking to me the brothers who came from Makedonia supplied. And in every way I kept myself – and shall keep – from being a burden to you.
10. It is a truth of Messiah in me, that this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the districts of Achaia.