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Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

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For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

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But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

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For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

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For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

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But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

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Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

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I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant

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And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

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As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

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Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

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But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

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For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

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And it is no wonder for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

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So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness whose end will be the reward of their works.