1. I wish that you would put up with a little foolishness from me, but indeed you are putting up with me.
2. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I betrothed you to one husband, to present you to Messiah as a pure virgin.
3. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds might be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion and purity to the Messiah.
4. For if someone comes and proclaims another Yeshua whom we did not proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit that you did not receive, or a different “good news” that you did not accept, you put up with that well enough!
5. For I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super special” emissaries.
6. Even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge. No, in every way we have made this clear to you in all things.
7. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8. I robbed other communities by taking wages from them for service to you.
9. When I was present with you and I was in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and I will continue to do so.
10. As the truth of Messiah is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12. But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off the opportunity from those who want an opportunity in what they boast about to also be regarded just as we are.