Study Desk

I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that.

I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me!

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles."

I do not think I am in the least inferior to those "super-apostles."

I may not be a trained speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.

I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.