1 I wish that you would put up with me
2 For I am jealous
3 But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of
4 For if the one who comes proclaims another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you put up with
5 For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.
6 But even if
7 Or did I commit a sin
8 I robbed other churches
9 And
12 But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we
13 For such people
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.
15 Therefore
16 Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if
17 What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord
18 Since many are boasting according to human standards, I also will boast.
19 For
20 For you put up with
21 I say
22 Are they Hebrews? I
23 Are they servants of Christ?—I am speaking as though I were beside myself—I
24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.
27 with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.
28 Apart from these external things,
29 Who is weak, and
30 If it is necessary to boast, I will boast
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed
32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to take me into custody,
33 and I was lowered through a window through the wall in a rope-basket, and I escaped his hands.