I wish you were bearing with me little a of foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

I am jealous as to for you of God with [the] jealousy; I have betrothed for you to one husband, a virgin pure to present to Christ.

I am afraid however, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve in the craftiness of him, may be corrupted the minds of you from the simplicity and the purity in Christ.

If indeed for the [one] coming, another Jesus proclaims, whom not we did proclaim, or a spirit different you receive which not you did receive, or glad tidings different which not you did accept, well you are enduring [it].

I reckon for in nothing to have been inferior to those most eminent apostles.

If however, even unpolished in speech [I am], yet not in knowledge; but in every [way], were manifested in all things to you.

Or a sin did I commit, myself humbling so that you may be exalted, because freely the of God gospel I preached to you?

Other churches I robbed, having received support for the toward you service.

And being present with you and having been in need, not I did burden no one; for the need of me completely filled up the brothers having come from Macedonia, and in everything unburdensome myself to you I kept, and will keep.

Is [the] truth of Christ in me, that boasting this not will be stopped of mine in the regions of Achaia.

Because of why? Because not I do love you? God knows [I do]!

What however I do, also I will do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity that in what they are boasting, they may be found as also we.

And no wonder; himself for Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

[It is] not surprising therefore, if also the servants of him masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to the deeds of them.

Again I say, no one me may think a fool to be; if however not lest even as a fool do receive me, that I also little a may boast.

What I am saying, not according to [the] Lord am I saying, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting.

Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast.

Gladly for you bear with fools, wise being!

You bear [it] for if anyone you enslaves, if anyone devours [you], if anyone takes [from you], if anyone exalts himself, if anyone in [the] face you strikes.

As to dishonor I speak, as that we have been weak! In whatever however maybe anyone may be daring — in foolishness I speak — am daring I also.

Hebrews are they? I also. Israelites are they? I also. Descendants of Abraham are they? I also.

Servants of Christ are they? As being beside myself I speak above [measure]: I [too], in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in beatings above measure, in deaths often.

From [the] Jews five times forty [lashes] minus one I received.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep [sea] I have passed;

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers; in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] Gentiles; in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] wilderness; in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brothers;

in labor and toil, in watchings often; in hunger and thirst, in fastings often; in cold and nakedness.