1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.[ † ]Matthew 17:172 Corinthians 11:4-16, 19 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.[ † ]Galatians 4:17Hosea 2:19Ephesians 5:26Colossians 1:28Leviticus 21:13 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.[ † ]Genesis 3:4-13John 8:441 Thessalonians 3:51 Timothy 2:14Revelation 12:9-15Ephesians 6:24 4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him .[ † ]Galatians 1:6-8 5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:102 Corinthians 12:11Galatians 2:6 6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.[ † ]1 Corinthians 1:171 Corinthians 12:8Ephesians 3:42 Corinthians 12:12
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?[ † ]Acts 18:31 Corinthians 9:182 Corinthians 12:13 8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them , to do you service. 9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself .[ † ]Acts 20:33Philippians 4:10 10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.[ † ]Romans 1:9Romans 9:12 Corinthians 1:23Galatians 2:201 Corinthians 9:15 11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.[ † ]2 Corinthians 6:112 Corinthians 12:15
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.[ † ]1 Corinthians 9:12 13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.[ † ]Acts 15:24Romans 16:18Galatians 1:7Philippians 1:152 Peter 2:1Revelation 2:2Philippians 3:2Titus 1:10 14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.[ † ]Galatians 1:8
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.[ † ]Philippians 3:19
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.[ † ]1 Corinthians 7:6 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.[ † ]1 Corinthians 4:10 20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you , if a man take of you , if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.[ † ]2 Corinthians 1:24Galatians 2:4Galatians 4:3-9Galatians 5:1 21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.[ † ]2 Corinthians 10:10Philippians 3:4 22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.[ † ]Acts 22:3Romans 11:1Philippians 3:4-6 23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:10Acts 9:161 Corinthians 15:30 24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.[ † ]Deuteronomy 25:32 Corinthians 6:5 25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;[ † ]Acts 16:22-23Acts 21:32Acts 14:5-19Acts 27:1-44 26in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;[ † ]Acts 9:23-24Acts 13:45-50Acts 17:5-131 Thessalonians 2:15Acts 14:5-19Acts 19:23Acts 27:42 27in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.[ † ]Acts 20:311 Corinthians 4:11Philippians 4:12Acts 9:9Acts 13:2-3Acts 14:23 28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.[ † ]Acts 20:18Romans 1:142 Corinthians 7:122 Corinthians 12:20Galatians 4:111 Thessalonians 3:10 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?[ † ]1 Corinthians 8:9-131 Corinthians 9:22 30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.[ † ]2 Corinthians 12:5-9, 10 31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.[ † ]Romans 1:9Galatians 1:201 Thessalonians 2:5Romans 9:5 32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:[ † ]Acts 9:19-25 33and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.