Nevertheless what I do, that will I do to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like unto us in that wherein they rejoice:

And no marvel, for Satan himself is changed into the fashion of an angel of light.

But I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ.

For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I coupled you to one man, to make you a chaste virgin to Christ:

I say again, lest any man think that I am foolish: or else even now take me as a fool, that I may boast myself a little.

Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers fashion themselves as though they were the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their deeds.

That I speak, I speak it not after the ways of the Lord: but as it were foolishly, while we are now come to boasting.

I speak as concerning rebuke, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any man dare be bold - I speak foolishly - I dare be bold also.

For ye suffer fools gladly because that ye yourselves are wise.

Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also.

For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

in death often. Of the Jews, five times received I, every time, forty stripes, save one.

They are Hebrews, so am I. They are Israelites, even so am I. They are the seed of Abraham, even so am I.

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers; in jeopardies of mine own nation, in jeopardies among the heathen. I have been in perils in cities, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

In the city of Damascus, the governor of the people under king Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me,

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations.

Thrice was I beaten with rods. I was once stoned. I suffered thrice shipwreck. Night and day have I been in the deep of the sea.

Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? And because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely?

For if he that cometh to you preach another Jesus than him whom we preached, or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received, either another gospel than that ye have received; ye might right well have been content.

If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities.

If the truth of Christ be in me, this rejoicing shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

They are the ministers of Christ - I speak as a fool - I am more: In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more plenteously,

I suppose that I was not behind the chief apostles.

Though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge. Howbeit, among you we are known to the utmost what we are in all things.

The God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not?

Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth.

Would to God, ye could suffer me a little in my foolishness: yea, and I pray you forbear me.

I robbed other congregations, and took wages of them, to do you service withal.

And when I was present with you and had need, I was grievous to no man. For that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I kept myself that I should not be grievous to you: and so will I keep myself.

and at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and so escaped his hands.