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Bear With Me

11 I wish that you would be patient with me in regard to a little foolishness—but you are already being patient with me. You see, I am jealous about you, with a godly jealousy, because I promised to present you as a pure virgin to one husband, Christ. But I am afraid that somehow, just as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning, so also your minds might be led astray from a sincere[a] and pure devotion to Christ. In fact, if someone comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you accept a different spirit, which you did not accept before, or a different “gospel,” which you did not welcome before, you put up with it all too well. I do not think that I am in any way inferior to the “super-apostles.” But even if I am an amateur in speech, yet I am not an amateur in knowledge. No, in everything we have clearly demonstrated that to you in every way.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 11:3 Or single-minded