1. O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:
2. for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
3. and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
4. for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept--well were ye bearing [it],
5. for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
6. and even if unlearned in word--yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.
7. The sin did I do--myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?
8. other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;
9. and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply--having come from Macedonia--and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.