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1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I am afraid, in the event that perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, in the same way your minds should be turned away from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with [him].
5 For I suppose I was not in the least inferior to the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though [I am] untrained in giving speeches, yet not in intelligence; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [from them], to minister to you.
9 And when I was present with you, and was in need, I was a burden to no one: for what was needed by me the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
12 But I will continue doing what I am doing, that I may remove any opportunity for those who want a chance to boast that they are just like us.
13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as the apostles of Christ.
15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his servants also are disguised as the servants of righteousness; whose conclusion will be according to their actions.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you [yourselves] are wise.
20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in whichsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [my own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brothers;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.