1. I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Messiah.
3. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
4. For if he who comes preaches another Yeshua, whom we didn’t proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5. For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best emissaries.
6. But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8. I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9. When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10. As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11. Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.