The Daily Audio Bible

11 Would to God you could suffer a little of my foolishness, and indeed, suffer me.

² For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have prepared you for one husband; to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

³ Yet I fear, however, that just as the serpent tricked Eve through his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

⁴ For if someone comes, preaching another Jesus whom we have not preached - or if you receive another spirit whom you have not received, or another gospel which you have not received - you might well tolerate him.

⁵ For I suppose that I am not inferior to the very chief Apostles.

⁶ And though I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. And among you we have made ourselves clearly understood in all things.

⁷ Have I committed an offense because I abased myself, that you might be exalted; and because I freely preached to you the Gospel of God?

⁸ I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to do you service.

⁹ And when I was present with you, and had need, I was not a hindrance to anyone. For that which I was lacking, the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied. And in all things, I have myself from being burdensome to you, and will keep doing so.

¹⁰ As the truth of Christ is in me, this rejoicing shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

¹² But what I do I will do so that I may cut off the opportunity of those who desire the opportunity to be found like us in that of which they boast.

¹³ For such false apostles are deceitful workers and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

¹⁵ Therefore, it is no great thing for his ministers to transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.