47:011:001 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 47:011:002 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. 47:011:003 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 47:011:004 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 47:011:005 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 47:011:006 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 47:011:007 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 47:011:008 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 47:011:009 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 47:011:010 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 47:011:011 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 47:011:012 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 47:011:013 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 47:011:014 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 47:011:015 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 47:011:016 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. 47:011:017 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 47:011:018 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 47:011:019 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 47:011:020 For ye 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.