¶I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. Y'all should bear of me a little bit of something foolish. But indeed you are bearing of me.

Bbut I am afraid fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so might your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he the one who comes preaches proclaims another Jesus, whom we did not preach proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

For I reckon (myself) that I am not at all behind to come up short nothing (at all) of the very best apostles.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

Or did I commit a sin make a mistake in by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you evangelized God’s Good News gospel with you free of charge?

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might for the purpose of serve serving you.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

But what I do, that I will also (continue) do(ing), in order that I may cut off occasion the place of incursion from them that desire the ones wanting an occasion a place of incursion [a foothold], that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

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

It therefore it is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¶I say again, let no one think take me to be a foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish [but do bear with me to be as if foolish], that I also may boast a little.

That whichWhat I am speaking, I don’t am not speaking according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence bit of boasting.

Seeing that Since many boast after the flesh, I so, too, will also I boast.

For you, being prudent, gladly bear with suffer the foolish gladly, being wise.

For you bear with suffer (a manit), if he someone brings you into bondage, if he devours (you), if he takes (you captive), if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.