1Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
2For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.
3But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.
4For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.
5For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.
6But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.
7Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?
