1 ¶ Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:21 2 Corinthians 11:4 2 Corinthians 5:13 2 Corinthians 11:19 2 Corinthians 11:21
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. See also: Hosea 2:19-20 Ephesians 5:26-27 Isaiah 54:5 Colossians 1:28 Leviticus 21:13-15
3 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. See also: Colossians 2:8 Galatians 1:6 Ephesians 4:14 Colossians 2:4 1 John 4:1
4 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. See also: Galatians 1:6-8 1 Corinthians 3:11 Ephesians 4:4-5 1 Timothy 2:5 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
5 ¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. See also: 2 Corinthians 12:11-12 1 Corinthians 15:10 Galatians 2:6-9
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:17 Ephesians 3:4 2 Corinthians 4:2 1 Corinthians 1:21 1 Corinthians 2:1-3
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? See also: 2 Corinthians 12:13 1 Corinthians 4:10-12 1 Corinthians 9:6 2 Corinthians 10:1 1 Thessalonians 2:9
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. See also: 2 Corinthians 11:9 Philippians 4:14-16 Philippians 4:18
9 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. See also: 1 Thessalonians 2:6 1 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:8-9 Philippians 4:10-16 Nehemiah 5:15
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. See also: Romans 9:1 Acts 18:12 Romans 1:9 2 Corinthians 1:23 Acts 18:27
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. See also: 2 Corinthians 12:15 2 Corinthians 6:11-12 2 Corinthians 7:3 Joshua 22:22 Psalms 44:21
12 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. See also: 1 Corinthians 9:12 Job 23:13 1 Corinthians 5:6 2 Corinthians 1:17 2 Corinthians 5:12
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. See also: Galatians 1:7 Revelation 2:2 Philippians 3:2 1 John 4:1 Galatians 2:4
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. See also: Galatians 1:8 2 Corinthians 2:11 2 Corinthians 11:3 Revelation 12:9 Matthew 4:1-10
15 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. See also: Philippians 3:19 2 Corinthians 3:9 Revelation 9:11 Isaiah 9:14-15 Jeremiah 23:14-15
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. See also: 2 Corinthians 11:1 2 Corinthians 12:6 2 Corinthians 11:19 2 Corinthians 11:21-23 2 Corinthians 12:11
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. See also: 1 Corinthians 7:12 2 Corinthians 9:4 Philippians 3:3-6 1 Corinthians 7:25 1 Corinthians 7:6
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. See also: Jeremiah 9:23-24 1 Corinthians 4:10 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 2 Corinthians 11:12 2 Corinthians 11:21-23
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. See also: 1 Corinthians 4:10 1 Corinthians 8:1 1 Corinthians 10:15 Revelation 3:17
20 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. See also: Galatians 2:4 Galatians 4:3 Galatians 4:9 Galatians 5:1 Isaiah 50:6
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. See also: 2 Corinthians 10:10 2 Corinthians 10:1-2 2 Corinthians 11:17 2 Corinthians 11:22-27 2 Corinthians 13:10
22 ¶ Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. See also: Philippians 3:5 Romans 11:1 Romans 9:4 Exodus 7:16 Exodus 9:1
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. See also: 2 Corinthians 6:4-5 2 Corinthians 1:9-10 2 Corinthians 6:9 Colossians 1:24 1 Corinthians 15:10
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. See also: Mark 13:9 Deuteronomy 25:2-3 Matthew 10:17
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; See also: Acts 14:19 Acts 16:22-23 Acts 16:33 Acts 16:37 Acts 27:1-44
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine 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 brethren; See also: Acts 14:5 Acts 13:50 Acts 17:5 Acts 20:19 Acts 25:3
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. See also: 2 Corinthians 6:5 Philippians 4:12 1 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 3:8 1 Corinthians 4:11-12
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. See also: 1 Corinthians 7:17 Romans 15:16 Acts 20:18-35 Acts 15:40-41 Acts 18:23
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? See also: 1 Corinthians 8:13 1 Corinthians 9:22 Galatians 4:8-20 Numbers 25:6-11 Ezra 9:1-3
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. See also: 2 Corinthians 12:5-11 Proverbs 25:27 Jeremiah 9:23-24 1 Corinthians 2:3 Proverbs 27:2
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. See also: Romans 9:5 Ephesians 1:3 John 10:30 Romans 1:25 Romans 15:6
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: See also: Acts 9:24-25 2 Corinthians 11:26
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. See also: Acts 9:25 Joshua 2:18 1 Samuel 19:12