1 Would that ye would bear with me in a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
4 For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it.
5 For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
6 But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.
7 Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?