for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

For when somebody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

receive us; no one did we wrong; no one did we waste; no one did we defraud;

And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

to the one, a deathly, deadly odor, to the other a vital, life-giving one. Who is qualified for this task? I am!

I do not indeed venture to class or compare myself with certain individuals who approve of themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense.