^{1 Ref} Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

^{2 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

^{6 Ref} But though `I be' rude in speech, yet `am I' not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made `this' manifest unto you in all things.

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} I robbed other churches, taking wages `of them' that I might minister unto you;

^{9 Ref} and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and `so' will I keep `myself'.

^{10 Ref} As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

^{11 Ref} Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

^{12 Ref} But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

^{13 Ref} For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

^{14 Ref} And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.

^{15 Ref} It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.